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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Hostname Scam
Actually, I would think that the $100.00 is not a major concern (~5K for entire US domain). However it is taken by other companies. However, I wonder about this 'enforcement' of an idea upon other people's 'property' (loosely coined here). I just can't wait to here of a suit about visit.netscape.com being an infringing trade/service mark. Ed > > The postscript states an intention on the part of USA Internet > > Gateway to register and enforce the hostname "visit" for any > > <state>.com domain. Sounds absurd, but you never know what > > will happen in the US legal system. > > > If, for any reason you are not interested in this offer, surely you > understand our request that you not resolve a machine to serve pages on the > "visit" machine name. None of you now has a machine named "visit" and any > future use of that machine name IN A SIMILAR MANNER as USA Internet Gateway, > Inc.'s would be deemed an intentional violation of our registered > trademarks, servicemarks, and patent(s) which may be currently pending. > > > Hmm. Actually, it seems like an excellent method for avoiding paying > $100 for the registration of a domain with InterNIC. Could this be their > motivation? ;-) > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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