On 1/9/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Eh? The law must have changed since I last looked. What happened to the cybersquatter who got a few million for mcdonalds.com?
Have you got a cite for it? The last I heard was either the law changed, or they started enforcing it, but I'm sure I've read several articles saying that you just can't do that anymore. Not that there are any decent trademarks left to grab anyway.
See http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/objectID/60EC3491-B4B5-4A98-BB6E6632A2FA 0CB2/111/228/195/ART/ or, of course, [[Cybersquatting]] :)
Steve
That link specifically says that "if the accused cybersquatter can show a judge that he had a reason to register the domain name other than to sell it back to the trademark owner for a profit, then a court will probably allow him to keep the domain name."
Of course, ICANN makes its own rules, which need not have anything to do with trademark law.
And the point I was making was that the WMF doesn't have a trademark on the term "wiki". But since "wikicommons.org" is owned by them anyway, it really doesn't matter.
Anthony