[wg-b] Cost of backing out a registration

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@alvestrand.no>]

At 12:13 24.09.99 -0400, DEUTSCH, SARAH B. wrote:

>After paying the bucks, few domain name holders would voluntarily 
>relinquish their domain name registrations.  They would still wait for the 
>trademark owner to come after them and sue.

Balancing a 70-dollar loss against a potential 10.000-dollar loss (legal 
fees, even if you win the case) may make a few people take the small but 
certain loss.

That's also a form of pre-publication censorship of speech, and a form of 
reverse domain name hijacking, which I'm sure some people will love to 
point out.

It's MUCH more expensive after the business cards have been printed.

                      Harald


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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Maxware, Norway
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