Comments on: How Sonics Fans Can Use Domaining To Exact Revenge On Clayton Bennett http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/how-sonics-fans-can-exact-revenge-on-clayton-bennett/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:29:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Scott http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/how-sonics-fans-can-exact-revenge-on-clayton-bennett/comment-page-1/#comment-2525 Scott Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:11:31 +0000 http://www.sempdx.org/?p=381#comment-2525 Coming from someone in the domaining industry, and one who is dead set against cybersquatting, I can tell you with great certainty that this would be cybersquatting. Domains are not "first come first serve." Often you need to be guilty of just one of the following: -Registering multiple names similar to a trademark -Using the name in bad faith or without a bona fide intent -Parking the trademarked name and thus profiting -Offering the domain for sale to the trademark holder Any one of these would be cybersquatting (and these aren't the only rules). You would be doing several of these. This is straight from the UDRP: "The trademark owner must prove three things: (1) that s/he has a trademark right that is identical or confusingly similar to your domain, (2) that you have no right or legitimate interest in the domain name, and (3) that you registered and used the domain in bad faith." Sorry sir, but you would be guilty of all 3. Please read the following page: http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm "It’s absolutely not cybersquatting if you register a team name they want to use before they do if so long as they haven’t announced their intentions to the public." That is EXACTLY bad faith. And it will not cost them anything more than a half hour of lawyers fees to take it from you. Coming from someone in the domaining industry, and one who is dead set against cybersquatting, I can tell you with great certainty that this would be cybersquatting. Domains are not “first come first serve.”

Often you need to be guilty of just one of the following:

-Registering multiple names similar to a trademark

-Using the name in bad faith or without a bona fide intent

-Parking the trademarked name and thus profiting

-Offering the domain for sale to the trademark holder

Any one of these would be cybersquatting (and these aren’t the only rules). You would be doing several of these.

This is straight from the UDRP:

“The trademark owner must prove three things: (1) that s/he has a trademark right that is identical or confusingly similar to your domain, (2) that you have no right or legitimate interest in the domain name, and (3) that you registered and used the domain in bad faith.”

Sorry sir, but you would be guilty of all 3.

Please read the following page:

http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm

“It’s absolutely not cybersquatting if you register a team name they want to use before they do if so long as they haven’t announced their intentions to the public.”

That is EXACTLY bad faith. And it will not cost them anything more than a half hour of lawyers fees to take it from you.

]]> By: Todd Mintz http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/how-sonics-fans-can-exact-revenge-on-clayton-bennett/comment-page-1/#comment-2519 Todd Mintz Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:58:06 +0000 http://www.sempdx.org/?p=381#comment-2519 Sorry Scott (not Salwolke), It's absolutely not cybersquatting if you register a team name they want to use before they do if so long as they haven't announced their intentions to the public. Sorry Scott (not Salwolke),

It’s absolutely not cybersquatting if you register a team name they want to use before they do if so long as they haven’t announced their intentions to the public.

]]> By: Scott Salwolke http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/how-sonics-fans-can-exact-revenge-on-clayton-bennett/comment-page-1/#comment-2514 Scott Salwolke Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:38:14 +0000 http://www.sempdx.org/?p=381#comment-2514 As a sports fan I always think its a travesty when a team leaves a location they've been associated with for so long. Obviously the Seattle market has value as David Stern says a team could be back in the city in five years. What sense does that make? Hopefully some Sonic fan will come up with the proper domain name and keep Bennett from obtaining it. As a sports fan I always think its a travesty when a team leaves a location they’ve been associated with for so long. Obviously the Seattle market has value as David Stern says a team could be back in the city in five years. What sense does that make? Hopefully some Sonic fan will come up with the proper domain name and keep Bennett from obtaining it.

]]> By: Scott http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/how-sonics-fans-can-exact-revenge-on-clayton-bennett/comment-page-1/#comment-2513 Scott Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:29:04 +0000 http://www.sempdx.org/?p=381#comment-2513 Sorry to rain on the parade, but this is nothing short of cybersquatting. Just because you registered it first doesn't make it ok. You would be using it in bad faith and they will get it from you for the cost of writing a letter. The only thing you'll accomplish is living up to the domainer stereotype that the rest of the world has of us. Sorry to rain on the parade, but this is nothing short of cybersquatting. Just because you registered it first doesn’t make it ok. You would be using it in bad faith and they will get it from you for the cost of writing a letter.

The only thing you’ll accomplish is living up to the domainer stereotype that the rest of the world has of us.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/how-sonics-fans-can-exact-revenge-on-clayton-bennett/comment-page-1/#comment-2510 Jeff Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:45:25 +0000 http://www.sempdx.org/?p=381#comment-2510 Too funny! Too funny!

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