Name: Warren Grant Organization: NA Position: Web Programmer I think you need to reexamine the whole concept of trademarks, and tradenames. The fact that you show a major bias in favour of the plaintiff in your cases, indicates that you are not a fair source of justice in these matters. It is rediculous that a company who registers a trademark (no matter how obscure) can automatically take away a website from someone who may have built it up for years but who has not registered a trademark on that name. Since the plaintiff can choose the venue he will no doubt choose you folks because you will almost automatically find in his favour (or does he have to play a "fee" for this service?). What happens when two geographically disparate organizations both with national trademarks to a name compete over the same web domain? does the bigger one win, does the US one win? Its a theatre of the absurd. I think we need to toss the whole concept of trademarks with regards to webdomains. First come first serve ought to be the whole of the law, perio! d. Right now I own a .net domain (its a private website), I have had a website on it for 2 years now. I am just waiting for the day that some company that has been in existence for 2 weeks decides they want my domain - 84% (reportedly) of the time you folks would give it to them without question. Why? What greater right should they have to MY address just because they are a corporate entity? All citizens are equal under the law, but corporate citizens are just a bit more equal?
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