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Mookie wrote:
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> There was a woman in the paper, she was having problems with her Toyota
> Camry, it had gone back to the shop numerous times to be fixed for many
> things.. to make a long story short, the car finally burned, because of
> a fault of Toyota, and they wouldn't take any responsiblity for it. She
> was able to register I believe it was www.camry.com or something like
> that, And she blasted em all over the net, she was taken to court
> because she refused to take the site down and she won. The judge
> basically said if you didn't want someone else to get that domain, you
> should have registered it in the first place.... Granted the judge might
> have seen her side of the story a little more.. taking on a large
> corporation.. though I can understand his/her thinking.. I think if
> Lego wants to make sure there's not dilution of their trademark/name
> they should register any domain they feel should be theirs..AND..
> anything they don't want to see their name on..they don't have to put
> anything on the site.. just don't let someone else register it is all..
>
> Just my thoughts on that...
Tamy,
This simply won't work. Many companies would go bankrupt trying to pay
registration fees for every imaginable use of their name they can think of.
The current system seems to work well - you can register just about
anything, but don't exactly expect to be left alone if you register
CocaColarocks.com or Microsoftblows.com ;-)
Tom Stangl
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