rocker - 4:13 pm on Oct 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

WebWork is right, Lobo is clearly out of line refering WebmasterWorld members as academics or geeks. :)

Seriously:

Lobo, would you consider this statement bad faith.

I read a press release announcing that a popular hotel chain was going to be opening a new hotel in my city. I went ahead and purchased a domain name like cityhotelname.com and started developing a content site about the hotel.

We already know that the hotel has a trademark for the name, The OP does not have any history of using the name and the only criteria left is if it was bad faith. To me his statement would show bad faith even if that was not his intention.