Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

["Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

> On Jan 13,  0:58, Carl Oppedahl wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Both are in their wrong.
> Ideally, Juno Electric should have had juno-electric.com and Juno Online should 
> have been juno-online.com if they both wanted to be safe (or rather, safer) 
> from court battles. Today we see two companies fighting out "juno" - what tells 
> us that there aren't hundreds of "juno something" in the world who want to
> have "juno" by itself ?

If Juno Electic is the electric utility for Juno Alaska, an inherently
local business, it should be electricity.juno.ak.us or the like.  The
Internet mail service Juno shold be juno.net.  If registering in .com
is make slower, more expensive, more cubersome, etc., it might at
least have the advantage of getting people to spread out a bit more
into even the many currently provided TLDs.

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