Erik wrote:
Of course I should be allowed to start Erik's
Garden
Olympics or to call my open source game "Mega Olympics".
Strawman. That's different Erik; you clearly are disambiguating the name from
/the/ Olympics. Even your use examples might still be suspect, however.
This is not the same thing at all compared to Wikipedia.ru whose name is just
Wikipedia.
I am strongly morally opposed to using the UDRP process
to hijack domain names registered by others.
And what about the initial hijacking of our trademark to begin with?
Don't get me wrong: If we had a trademark on the
Wikipedia name, I would support going after those
who violate this trademark in their commercial
self-interest. But we don't.
Sigh. It has already been stated /several/ times to you that we /do/ have a
very clear trademark on the Wikipedia name. Registration is a secondary issue
(as with copyrights).
I'm not saying we should do nothing. I am saying we
should ask them to hand over the name. If they don't
do it voluntarily, we should ask them for the price they
want.
I agree with this completely. However if they want an unreasonable price (IMO
over 3 times what they paid to register the domain) then IMO we advance to
the next level.
We should also eventually register all Wikimedia trademarks starting with
Wikimedia and Wikipedia. That way we will discourage cybersquatters in the
future from automattically tripling (or greater) their money for each
Wikimedia domain variant they purchase. Trademark registration will be a
cheaper alternative, IMO.
But the Wikipedia.ru case, IMO, is not a case of cybersquatting so we should
treat this situation with kid gloves until and if the Wikipedia.ru people
start to play hardball.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)