Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Carl Oppedahl wrote:

> Yes, that's what you would expect.  And it's what I would expect.  Yet we
> see Juno Electric showing no apparent embarassment at trying to deny Juno
> Online the use of juno.com, a move which, if successful, would have
> rendered seven hundred thousand people unable to receive their email.
> Something must be done.

Something was done; Juno Electric did not succeed. I don't know if it ever
got to the courts but I don't see that juno.com would have great
difficulty in getting a very fast injunction against Juno Electric and the
Internic simply on the basis of disruption of email service to all those
people.

And I have yet to see any evidence that a 60 day waiting period imposed by
a non-judicial body like CORE/IAHC will have any significant effect on
trademark owners who wish to pursue a domain name owner.

It seems to me that if the domain name owner is infringing on the
trademark then they will lose anyway. And if they are not infringing on
the trademark, they will win.

What is the point of a 60 day waiting period? 

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