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Ha exactly — like a briefcase with $1million on the sidewalk. No way I’m touching that!
I too don’t want Javier Bardem hunting me down.
Well we know he'd do it for $2M. But for $1M...what are the odds?
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While it is an unwinnable case, there is a positive dollar amount to settling out of court.
Especially if you have a cute story like the MikeRoweSoft guy did.
I think Nissan.com is more illustrative -- it was a guy named Nissan[1] who had an actual computer business in his name and got to keep it away from Nissan Motors, but now his site has a lot more to do bragging about his fight with the motor company than actual computer stuff.
[1] Hebrew/Israeli name usually transliterated as "Nisan"
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
With the expansiion of TLDs, this just means that apex domains of a TLD will still be subject to trademarks. google.pizza, google.yoga, google.keyboard will all be trivially easy for Google to claim trademark infringement for. So while it's cute that you can register "google.soy" -- if Google cares enough they'll take if from you.
I don't doubt google would attempt to do this, and probably win simply by being able to out resource an individual who registered the domain, however, my limited understanding of trademark law is this wouldn't necessarily be a valid claim. My understanding is trademarks are a protection against consumer confusion, so as long as companies aren't selling similar products or services, or competing in the same geography…
I don't know what legal relationship it has to US trademark law, if any, but I've heard ICANN has its own sort of arbitration process for domain squatting disputes.
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The validity of this effect has been called into question, but for a long time, this was the "standard response" to situations like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
Yeah the Kitty Genovese (sp) story is an example right? Wasn’t that proven to be a myth or something?
Yes, the popular story about the 30-odd bystanders was broadly unfounded. In fact there were two calls to the police.
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No there isn't. Companies won't pay you money for having cybersquatted on their obvious trademark. You'll lose the domain flat out through UDRP. The best outcome that can happen to you if you find yourself in such a situation is that you relinquish the domain name for free and nothing further comes from it.
Arbitration through UDRP is expensive, both in terms of process costs and employee time. A reasonable company would probably pay more than registration costs to avoid it.
Not if you take into account that they also want to deter future cybersquatting.
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Infrastructure changes aren't even needed; Google already owns the .google TLD. All they would need to do is attach an A record to the root.
ICANN doesn't allow A records on the DNS root on gTLDs. If they did, we already would've.
This explains so much. I'd always wondered why e.g. CERN's website was served from home.cern instead of just cern.
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There's a bunch of good TLD's available every week on https://www.namebase.io/ for a lot less than ICANN charges. For example recently someone got the js/ TLD for about $19k in HNS. (compare that to ICANN's $200k application fee) Namebase is built on the Handshake protocol - a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root DNS naming zone with the goal…
So… these aren't accessible without specially configured DNS, right? Given that the point of domains is to let people get to your site, a TLD only accessible after reconfiguring your computer to use a little-known DNS competitor seems worth a hell of a lot less than $19,000.
smells like new.net
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#198I'm from Israel, and this is the first time I've heard about the .קום tld. I've never seen any website that uses it. The author mentioned that creating a new tld costs a minimum of 185k USD. This makes me wonder who would pay this kind of money for this completely useless tld.
If they managed it for only $185k I'm impressed, maybe if you did several on the same infrastructure. It's a gold mine offering. There was a long queue of people quite sure that .binglebongle would be the new .com. Sometimes it was a marginally less stupid plan, like we can be a regional alternative - and Russia even has one that's actually making money - it isn't taking over the world, but it's Cyrillic and was neve…
Afaik most of the new TLDs are hosted by a few specialized ISPs that have enough DNS infrastructure to comply with ICANN's standards. Apart from tech companies, nobody wants to maintain DNS servers.
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#199Does anyone aggregate access to all 1500 TLD's? Is there a guide available on which combination of registrars to use to query them all?
Not all registries participate in the SRS registry protocol. Some of the lesser known ccTLDs must be registered by the individual authorities. It's not accurate to run a DNS query to determine whether the domain is available because one can own the domain, but decide not to set any DNS records.
Wouldn't non-existent domains just return NXDOMAIN?
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#200Yesterday I was doing a search and found weblogs.app (remember them?) I thought - wow, I'll grab it. Then I thought, nah - who uses weblogs? But it's nice to find domains with easy-to-remember names. I've bought one too many domains in my life, which I've been moving to my new tool - https://newsy.co