From: Cougarjack@aol.com
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 22:55:42 PST
I believe there have already been court cases dealing with this issue. It is refered to as "Domain squatting" when you register a domain name that's unique to someone else's trade or service mark. If they ultimately want it, the current doctrine seems to say that they get it. I'm not aware of anyone who has won this fight, or has succeeded in selling the URL or collecting any revenue whatsoever on it. In the early days of the web, certain visionaries flocked to register such famous names as Coca Cola, General Motors, etc. In the beginning, a few of these fellows managed to sell the urls for moderate amounts of cash. But as the practice caught on, and CEO's began to understand the value of the web, corporate America responded as they usually do, with busloads of lawyers and pockets full of corrupt Congressmen. As a result, most of these have been forced by the courts to surrender them.
Sorry Rick! (there's always Amway!)
In a message dated Thu, 7 Feb 2002 5:53:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, Rikk Rogers <rkltd@swbell.net> writes:
> You have time and sweat invested in the URL, it is worth a Bunch to them.
> 1. you could make them pay out the nose for it.
> 2. you could rent space on your URL to them.
> 3. you could make em hire you as their web developer, as a contractor.
>
> Just don't give it to em w/o a fight, and do get a copyright and patents
> lawyer.
> And let em know how you feel about the way they have acted.
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