Comments on: GoDaddy Allowing Obvious Trademark Domains on Day 1 of .Me Auction

By: MHB

MHB — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:59:19 +0000

Damir

Sorry the law does not work that way.

We all sent through this years ago.

You cannot beat pepsi to the draw and register the domain first and you basically can’t register and use it just because they elected not to register it.

They can always come after you for it, and I am not aware of any case where a court has ruled against a famous trademark holder who passed on registering a domain using some extension.

By: Damir

Damir — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:41:23 +0000

Companies with registered trademarks should have registered their names to prevent people from registering them. Just because a Company holds a registered trademark it is NOT their right to take away the domain name for the person which has registered it first.

By: auction » Blog Archive » Trademark Issues Arise on Day 1 of .Me Auction

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:39:43 +0000

[...] Tara Bethune-Leamen . Excerpt: Now GoDaddy is not only using their own platform, but as the owner of the .me registry they appearently will be getting the proceeds of the auction of these clearly trademark violation domains. Very troubling. [...]

By: Empedocles

Empedocles — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:28:39 +0000

What happened to the clarion call .com is King / all other extensions will just mean more traffic to .com just about every post treated new extensions with distain !!
I can understand value of .tv or possibly .vid but any other extension advertised by a developed site will just undermine your existing portfolio’s ? If you do not see or hear of it you will not use .it or trust .it and as for CADNA they IMO could be of great service to .com & country codes.
I would not want to be in the trenches with some of you chaps

By: Steve M

Steve M — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:55:52 +0000

Of course…it wouldn’t be the “most successful domain launch…” without TMs…

By: scott

scott — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:13:22 +0000

General Comment, not directed at anybody in particular.

Most successful business people take chances and speculate, that’s the entrepreneurial spirit!

By: Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:05:04 +0000

to MHB

Sure, you would have a tough time doing something with pepsi .anything but how about apple computers and apple records and the apple farmer? All are entitled to apple.com.

Anyway, godaddy is probably not obligated to hold a sony.me or a pepsi.me. Imagine the ones they don’t hold, then they are liable for not holding every potential TM from every country in the world.

Just the joy of another .whatever rollout.

Remember .eu? They called back some domains because of improper use.

Honestly, I don’t understand why people would speculate with new extensions.

With that said, I made money on the .mobi rollout so I am guilty of speculation myself

By: scott

scott — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:54:35 +0000

Michael:

I am speechless; why didn’t “HS-CEO of a company I mentioned above reserve its name; after all Mr. S was a financial backer of iReit.

By: MHB

MHB — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:42:45 +0000

Scott

I don’t know why these were not blocked by godaddy

By: scott

scott — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:39:22 +0000

A few names coming-up that may have a trademark issue or not(there are plenty additional names-here’s a small snapshot)

heinz; starbucks; mitsubishi; footlocker; tyco; chanel; sonypictures; ncaa; overstock; dominos; morganstanley; americanexpress, igoogle ? etc.