drbill - 2:31 pm on Sep 7, 2000 (gmt 0)

Someone that I know has been taken to court over the Story that was posted here just becuase the "only" word in that domain was in one that he chose. $9K to defend him self and then was told that the ruling would have to wait for the out come of the story above. He was taken to court but the company that is holding that domain right now. You know it actually scares me that a "little guy" on the net thinks up a great domain and some company with loads of cash behind them and a army of lawyers come and take it from him ?

Seems that if you can't call a domain property of a company then how can you call a trade mark property? You have to go thru the same sort a Registration to get both but one is property and the other is not? Go figure

Just to add to this story :) I was contacted by a lawyer not too long ago asking me to stop using a certain keyword as i was beating his client in the SE's. He used a lot of large words (that is could not even begin to spell) The bottom line was he said that the word was their company name and I had no right to use it. Being the nice guy I am I removed the page and then went looking for trade marks and domains. I come to find the domain is available and so was the trade mark. The rest of the story is that my lawyer contacted them yesterday with a cease and dissist letter to them :) Yep you got it I bought the domain and the trade mark. I would never had followed this thru if it had not been for their lawyer being so bullish and threatening.

Please excuse the long post I just thought that a story about the little guys winning one would be good :)