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On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 05:02:38PM +0000, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.publish, Matthew Miller writes:
> > Mike Timm <mtimm@usinternet.com> wrote:
> > > Nice idea overall, but bad idea on the domain name.
> >
> > "Gerf" doesn't sound even remotely connected to LEGO. Their policy states
> > that you shouldn't use Lego as part of the _domain name_, which it isn't in
> > this case. "lego" is the _host name_, which is an entirely different thing.
Gerf, pronounced with a hard "G", is un-related. I will not contact them
to ask their permission for this domain as I don't want to know their
answer. Their rules about "internet addresses" are vague (is
www.gerf.org/~lego not allowed? How about lego@gerf.org?). I don't
really want to play with their lawyers.
(Worst case scenerio: legot.gerf.org, geez.)
> > Granted, their policy also talks about "an internet address", but that's an
> > extremely vague term. But the last sentence of the relevant paragraph
> > clarifies: it would be misleading to use "lego" in the domain name.
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> TLG shut down a site named legowww.homepages.com in 1995.
Do we have more history on that? I imagine lego just bullied
homepages.com. Not a possible tactic here, I *own* gerf.org.
I have comments stating that I am unrelated to lego, and I think I'll go
add that to my copying/trademarks page....
Thanks for the advice....where *is* my lawyer....
Ciao!
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| (...) Good move. (...) Really? Do you provide your own hosting or do you pay someone else for it? Do you provide your own pipe if you own the machine? I'd say if TLG wanted to cut you off they could find someone willing to agree with them, but (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| (...) In this case, "lego" is indeed the host name, but it's _also_ part of the domain name: It's part of the 3rd-level domain name. The popular media has been propagating the misperception that "domain name" equals "second level domain name," but (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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