On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Swerve wrote: > Just because a TLD has been copyrighted, i don't believe that one has > exclusive use of that TLD when the word being used is a common word or > abreviation.
Your not copyrighting a word. You copyright the databases. Thats why Goolnik of .USA fame dropped the .GOD tld from his scam. Under this case we could prove he had prior knowledge of the existence of .GOD and intentionally violated our copyright interests. http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This of course allowed us under UK copyright law to proceed by means of a criminal application (takes longer) or civil action (faster). We choose crimnal proceeding and Goolnik saw the light and shut down his scam against us. And we were happy to forgive him. Of course having provided the FTC with our due dillgence on the issues we also knew Mr. Goolnik would get his just deserts in the end. And he did ;) cheers joe baptista
