France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994

Post by Buge » Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 7:16 AM UTC

lkrubner wrote: post #7

The courts, in the USA, have found that domain names are not property, instead they are like telephone numbers: ---------------- The court found that under the California tariffs, rules, and regulations applicable to public utilities, and under the terms of the contracts, the debtors had no “proprietary right in the number.” https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=0a84b472-c89f... Also: ...under Virginia law,…

Post by sarabande » Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 7:32 AM UTC

Buge wrote: post #201

lkrubner wrote: post #7

The courts, in the USA, have found that domain names are not property, instead they are like telephone numbers: ---------------- The court found that under the California tariffs, rules, and regulations applicable to public utilities, and under the terms of the contracts, the debtors had no “proprietary right in the number.” https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=0a84b472-c89f... Also: ...under Virginia law,…

>Governments have the right to assign to themselves any telephone number they wish, and reserve ranges of phone numbers for themselves, therefore it makes sense that they can do the same to domain names. What if America assigns themselves a.com and Australia also assigns themselves a.com ? Only one can prevail. There needs to be some higher power to determine whose demand wins.

Post by codfrantic » Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 8:00 AM UTC

Buge wrote: post #202

gerdesj wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it should really be web.co.uk, or web.ac.uk, or web.gb, or web.ch or web.ac.ch or something 8) Sir Tim is a Brit and we have two TLDs uk and gb and of course Sir Tim was working at CERN in Switzerland (.ch) when he started the www thing. Sir T only invented the www. The internet as such was invented by an American agency - ARPA/DARPA.

And it should be france.fr not france.com

Post by maxnoe » Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 8:20 AM UTC

gerdesj wrote: post #145

gremlinsinc wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He should team of with Tim Berners Lee, and get the creator of the internet to claim he owns the rights to Web.com ...

So it should really be web.co.uk, or web.ac.uk, or web.gb, or web.ch or web.ac.ch or something 8) Sir Tim is a Brit and we have two TLDs uk and gb and of course Sir Tim was working at CERN in Switzerland (.ch) when he started the www thing. Sir T only invented the www. The internet as such was invented by an American agency - ARPA/DARPA.

Post by xaldir » Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 8:55 AM UTC

zouhair wrote: post #186

dingaling wrote: post #2

So the case came down to violating French trademark law. That's because country names cannot be trademarked internationally ( and why tourist agencies register names like Visit ) So it's not clear why Web.com even responded to the complaint unless they have a presence in France. Or was the risk that it could have been escalated to a European level of penalty?

So if France Gall[0] created the website she would have been stripped too? France is a relatively common name[1] in France. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Gall [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_(name)