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Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by executesorder66 »

CydeWeys wrote: post #169
koheripbal wrote: post #153

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While it is an unwinnable case, there is a positive dollar amount to settling out of court.

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.

Looks like you haven't heard of https://nissan.com/.

They've had the domain for years.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by chimen »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #188
aaronharnly wrote: post #152

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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.

Need to watch that again. Thanks for reminding me. His role was awesome.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by ksec »

SilasX wrote: post #192
benatkin wrote: post #159

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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"

Interesting, why doesn't Nissan motor just paid more money say a million for it?

Surely they can afford it.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by m463 »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #145
gpanders wrote: post #100

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For anyone unfamiliar, this is a clever riff on a classic economics joke about the Efficient Market Hypothesis [1]. "Two economists are walking down the street and one of them notices what appears to be a $20 bill (or a $100 bill—the monetary amounts vary) on the sidewalk. “It’s not a real $20 bill,” the other economist declares. “If it were a real $20 bill, someone would have picked it up off the sidewalk already.”…

Except the $20 bill in this case is a $-10 bill (or whatever the domain name costs), as there is no profit to be made by registering a top company's trademark as a domain name.

Would a proper analogy be: free boat! (needs work, might be radioactive)?

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by hnick »

odensc wrote: post #149
moonchild wrote: post #79

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http://cm./ used to resolve

http://ai./ still works

What happens if I have a computer on my network named ai? Wouldn't it cause a conflict?

I called my FreeNAS box freenas because I didn't feel very creative, and I can browse to it as http://freenas or http://freenas./ but if they took a domain of 'freenas' suddenly that means I have to do extra work and rename my stuff. Doesn't seem fair!

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by Hamuko »

executesorder66 wrote: post #201
CydeWeys wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Looks like you haven't heard of https://nissan.com/ . They've had the domain for years.

Sure, if your name is Mike Google, then you might have better chances at keeping your domain. Probably still not good chances to profit off of it.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by blendergeek »

executesorder66 wrote: post #201
CydeWeys wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Looks like you haven't heard of https://nissan.com/ . They've had the domain for years.

Except that isn't cybersquatting. His name is Nissan and he did business as 'Nissan' before Nissan called themselves Nissan in the USA.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by mike_d »

lifeformed wrote: post #87
JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #52

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Companies like Mark Monitor will buy all of the .tld's for you-- and continually grab new ones (as the set of TLDs is constantly growing). At Netflix's size, I would assume they would've paid for such a service.

Could someone register a tld and charge a crazy amount of money for it, to extort big companies?

Yes, a company by the name of Donuts did this with over 200 new TLDs.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by ComputerGuru »

ancarda wrote: post #175

Somewhat off-topic, tinyprojects.dev and netflix.soy both have DNSSEC, is this required for some of the newer TLDs (like how .dev has mandatory HTTPS preloading)? Just it's rare to see it in the wild.

Nope. As for .dev, Google controls the tld and the HSTS list baked into Chrome.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by darkwater »

executesorder66 wrote: post #201
CydeWeys wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Looks like you haven't heard of https://nissan.com/ . They've had the domain for years.

Wow, the look of that website made me feel like a teenager again!
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