I used to work at a Patent & Trademark Attorney's office up until I went
into IT, and I do remember that there was/is some legislation that gives
trademark holders priority when domain names are registered.
But there were also several companies that monitored new trademark
registrations, and send letters to the owners, inviting them to have the
trademark included in some publication (which cost a lot of money and did
not offer any advantage whatsoever, except to the publishing company).
Of course, my information in that respect is almost 10 years old, so
things may have changed since then.
I also recall the following story, which may be related.
Someone does an availability search for a domain on a site (I think it was
GoDaddy or such).
The domain is available.
A few days later, he does the same search, and now the domain is
registered to a dummy corporation, and he is offered the opportunity to
purchase the domain name.
I guess that there will always be people trying to make money the easy &
shady way.
Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
-----
Yoda of Borg are we. Futile is resistance, assimilated will you be.
-----
rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent by: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
09/01/2008 14:13
Please respond to
PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To
pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
cc
Subject
[PCTECH] Fw: Notice of Internet Domains Intellectual Property Right
I assumed that this is some sort of scam to extort money out of us.
However, I did a little searching out on the internet and there is a
warning out there:
Microsoft issued a warning concerning a vulnerability in how Windows
resolves hostnames, and is offering steps for systems administrators to
work around the problem until a fix is issued. The issue affects hostnames
that do not include a fully qualified domain name.
Then again, I see a lot of Internet news postings by this same company so
perhaps that is a way to justify their business? Most of the postings are
on forums and places WebSense won't let me go to, so, it's not like I am
seeing these warnings at the BBB.
And, when I see "issued a warning" without a warning number to be able to
search Microsoft's site by...
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
