Ellen Rony wrote:
>Dan Steinberg wrote:
>
>>More evidence of reverse domain name hijacking:
>>
>>http://www.internetnews.com/rumblings/0,1145,81,00.html
>
>Cyberpiracy comes in two forms. One, which WIPO focuses on, has the
>trademark owner as the victim of the predatory behavior of unaffiliated and
>bad faith registrants.
>
>The other type, as in the example of HURRICANE.COM, reveals a legitimate
>domain name registrant as the victim of a trademark owner's poor business
>vision in waiting too long to recognize the market opportunities of the
>Internet.
Absolutely. Add to this the trademark owner's bullying tactics, such as
making threats to sue the domain name holder in trademark infringement, a
complex field of law most domain name holders have no knowledge of, and
have to hire specialists to deal with. Trademark owners, by definition,
have knowledge of trademark law, or at least knowledge of a trademark
attorney who may or may not have any awareness of the Internet or domain
name law, and you have a problem at least as significant as the "trademark
owner as victim" problem which is currently solved in large part by the NSI
dispute policy.
