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Re: [NANOG] Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play

  • From: Pim van Riezen
  • Date: Wed Mar 07 16:28:36 2001

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:

>
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>
> > Parody and criticism are protected under trademark law(although those
> > rights are being eroded quickly.)
>
> No one has a sense of humor any more.  A lot of folks have had
> <companyname>sucks.com taken away from them due to "trademark violations".

Which brings me to the interesting borderline case:

  companyname.sucks.com

Can WIPO take away hostname records?:)

Pi

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