[simpits-tech] Web site registeration issue using F16 plane name

[Roy Coates]

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, David C. Allen wrote:

> Gene is right on!
>
> Look at what this guy has been through:
>
> http://www.nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php
>

That's a pretty disgusting story if you believe all you read. didn't this
happen ages ago with macdonalds.com ??  iirc an old-timer (Mr MacDonald)
ran a hardware store that had been in his family for years. Mickey D's
tried to get the domain off him via the courts and the courts threw it out
since he was using his own name and posed no commercial threat. I think
Mickey D's ending paying a LOT of money to buy the domain off him.


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Roy Coates.
Dept of Engineering.
Liverpool University.
E-Mail: r.coates at liv.ac.uk
Tel: 0151 794 4862
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