Comments on: Letters you will be receiving if you the Snowe Bill Passes http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-1622 admin Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:51:18 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/#comment-1622 Gordon In the next few days the ICA should be ready to announce some guidance on writing letters to senators. You can go sign the petition we blogged about yesterday. You can send letters to the companies that are the founders of CADNA and tell them you are going to boycott their products unless they drop there support of an organization trying to take away your property Gordon

In the next few days the ICA should be ready to announce some guidance on writing letters to senators.

You can go sign the petition we blogged about yesterday.

You can send letters to the companies that are the founders of CADNA and tell them you are going to boycott their products unless they drop there support of an organization trying to take away your property

]]> By: The Great American Snowe Job http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-1606 The Great American Snowe Job Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:54:36 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/#comment-1606 [...] kind of letters you’d be receiving if this became [...] [...] kind of letters you’d be receiving if this became [...]

]]> By: Dave Zan http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-1603 Dave Zan Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:44:30 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/#comment-1603 The bill author appears to have blogged about it as well: http://blog.thehill.com/2008/02/29/protect-internet-consumers-from-fraud-and-theft-sen-olympia-snowe The bill author appears to have blogged about it as well:

http://blog.thehill.com/2008/02/29/protect-internet-consumers-from-fraud-and-theft-sen-olympia-snowe

]]> By: Gordon http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-1602 Gordon Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:44:12 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/#comment-1602 Besides the ICA, who / what should we be doing right now? Besides the ICA, who / what should we be doing right now?

]]> By: Kelly Lieberman http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-1592 Kelly Lieberman Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:57:53 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/#comment-1592 In my opinion, search engines are the dictionary and domains are the entries. As Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary states "...each entryis based on a constantly updated file of actual English usage. Those entries known to be trademarks are so labeled and are treated in accordance with a formula approved by the United States Trademark Association." Therefore, I am assuming that generic words, whether alone or grouped together, used as domains for the purpose of an entry, on an internet search, just as one would search in a dictionary or Encyclopedia, should be free to be used as such by the domain registrant. How can Dell computers justify owning computers.com when Toshiba, or Macintosh or whoever offer a similar generic product? A domain registrant and a company had equal opportunity to register the domain name when it was first offered to the public. Too bad for Dell that they were not insightful enough to register it. We must be vigilant and on guard to these abuses. We must help back up every honest domainer as these claims come up. Obviously, if someone is purposefully trying to infringe on a brand, it is another story. The domainer's I know have been light years ahead of the marketing companies that these corporations employ. They need to fire their expensive marketing company and ask the domain holder of "their" generic search to replace them. that's the way I see it.com In my opinion, search engines are the dictionary and domains are the entries. As Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary states “…each entryis based on a constantly updated file of actual English usage. Those entries known to be trademarks are so labeled and are treated in accordance with a formula approved by the United States Trademark Association.”
Therefore, I am assuming that generic words, whether alone or grouped together, used as domains for the purpose of an entry, on an internet search, just as one would search in a dictionary or Encyclopedia, should be free to be used as such by the domain registrant.
How can Dell computers justify owning computers.com when Toshiba, or Macintosh or whoever offer a similar generic product? A domain registrant and a company had equal opportunity to register the domain name when it was first offered to the public. Too bad for Dell that they were not insightful enough to register it.
We must be vigilant and on guard to these abuses. We must help back up every honest domainer as these claims come up. Obviously, if someone is purposefully trying to infringe on a brand, it is another story. The domainer’s I know have been light years ahead of the marketing companies that these corporations employ. They need to fire their expensive marketing company and ask the domain holder of “their” generic search to replace them. that’s the way I see it.com

]]> By: admin http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-1586 admin Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:08:32 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/#comment-1586 Tim We are getting way off topic here which again is that people will take advantage of this law id it passes to try to take your names away. They do it now when the stakes are lower Tim

We are getting way off topic here which again is that people will take advantage of this law id it passes to try to take your names away.

They do it now when the stakes are lower

]]> By: Tim Davids http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-1580 Tim Davids Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:52:21 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/#comment-1580 side note...it was an exact match to an industry... side note…it was an exact match to an industry…

]]> By: Tim Davids http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-1579 Tim Davids Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:51:35 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/#comment-1579 conversely I sold a name last fall that I was making a site for and the guy wanted to pay me "more" because I had time invested in the site...I told him I couldn't charge him for that since it was my problem that I was sellinga domain I had time into...wish everyone was like him...btw I made 250% on the name...owned it 11 months! whatta business... conversely I sold a name last fall that I was making a site for and the guy wanted to pay me “more” because I had time invested in the site…I told him I couldn’t charge him for that since it was my problem that I was sellinga domain I had time into…wish everyone was like him…btw I made 250% on the name…owned it 11 months!

whatta business…

]]> By: admin http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-1572 admin Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:44:32 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/#comment-1572 Rockwell No he offered $50 for the name "offering you a settlement now of $50" Rockwell

No he offered $50 for the name

“offering you a settlement now of $50″

]]> By: admin http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-1571 admin Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:41:34 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/2008/03/05/letters-you-will-be-receiving-if-you-the-snowe-bill-passes/#comment-1571 Nice thoughts, but how large is your legal budget? Right now if body comes after you for a domain they have no right to its going to cost you between 5-10K to defend. If The attorney general or the FTC comes after you on a domain, your talking 6 figures to defend, for each one. The problem is that this bill makes almost every domain subject to claim by someone, somewhere, remember they do not need a trademark, just a name similar to a business name (even if no one has heard of them). So you may have hundreds of these to defend. We would hire our own in house attorney to handle these it would be cheaper. But how many domainers or small business owners could afford to defend themselves?? Don't forget the law would also allow them to injoin your use of the domain immediately without a showing of anything, so your income going to be cut off and then your going to have to fight Nice thoughts, but how large is your legal budget?

Right now if body comes after you for a domain they have no right to its going to cost you between 5-10K to defend.

If The attorney general or the FTC comes after you on a domain, your talking 6 figures to defend, for each one.

The problem is that this bill makes almost every domain subject to claim by someone, somewhere, remember they do not need a trademark, just a name similar to a business name (even if no one has heard of them). So you may have hundreds of these to defend.

We would hire our own in house attorney to handle these it would be cheaper.

But how many domainers or small business owners could afford to defend themselves??

Don’t forget the law would also allow them to injoin your use of the domain immediately without a showing of anything, so your income going to be cut off and then your going to have to fight

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