Re: [ga] AMAZON

[Peter Veeck <veeck@texoma.net>]

What happened with The Amazon Bookstore in Minneapolis, MN.

Is Amazon.com going to populate the 1000 sites?  If not isn't this
cybersquating?

Peter Veeck

Jefsey Morfin wrote:

> Jamie, Louise, and other UDRP afficionados...
>
> This is an interesting tip: I just read in GreatDomains letter
> that AMAZON has resgitered more than1000 DNs with
> AMAZON in it this year and they keep going. It shows
> these guies have the proper way of doing it: they register first.
>
> Using this serious, professionnal example it could be
> construed that if a TM owner does not protect his TM as
> a domain name in registering it or initiating an UDRP the
> same month as he registers his TM it means he does not
> really care about internet.
>
> The same rasoning should apply to old standing TMs; if
> they did not tried to register or to protect it after several
> years, it means they do not care.
>
> A new TM could obviously not challenge a existing DNs
> since it is easy to everyone everywhere to check if a DN
> exists. We could propose a Whois program where searches
> could be made with entries as *barcelona* to find every
> occurence of the word (there is a service like that for
> .com .net .org .ws, but I cannot find it back).
>
> This would create a defacto worldwide TM internet class.
> Jefsey
>
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