Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Paul Svensson <paul@svensson.org>]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Carl Oppedahl wrote:

>as trademark infringement.  Clue.com, perfection.com, regis.com, juno.com.
>Those are the publicly visible cases, and for each of those there are
>dozens more that happen not to have reached public view.  Something has to
>be done to provide some stability for domain name owners in such cases.

Carl,
something is being done: those cases are being tried in court.

>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.

I believe "would have" is the central phrase here.  From what we've
seen so far, courts have not shown the cluelessness regarding domain name
issues that some people have claimed they would.

>Something must be done.

You might be right on this point, 
but that does not imply that IAHC are the ones who should do it.

	/Paul