Startup Sues a Domain Name Owner to Grab a 16-Year-Old URL
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Re: Startup Sues a Domain Name Owner to Grab a 16-Year-Old URL
#2It doesn't look like he was CyberSquatting to me. I hope it resolves in his favor. If the person bringing the suit should win it would set a bad precedent for all Internet business.
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#3Won't Web searches about WorkBetter always point to news about this case now? Sort of bad PR even before the new company gets started.
An 'out of court' settlement would be better perhaps for both parties.
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#4It doesn't look like he was CyberSquatting to me. I hope it resolves in his favor. If the person bringing the suit should win it would set a bad precedent for all Internet business.
The key take away is the part of the plaintiff's filing that seems to want to redefine 'register' to include 'renew'.
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#5It doesn't look like he was CyberSquatting to me. I hope it resolves in his favor. If the person bringing the suit should win it would set a bad precedent for all Internet business.
It's almost textbook bullying. According to the attached pdfs, Kneen has only sold 2 domains in the last 11 years. He'd have to be a really shitty cybersquatter to pull off those numbers.
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#6I have sympathy for Kneen, but do we really, as a society, benefit from people that buy useful domains and then sit on them for 16 years while doing nothing with them?
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#7Forcing squatters to have to file a trademark to retain their squatted domains would improve the squatting situation 10000x.
Clearly the current Workbetter.com owner is squatting the name.
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#8The guy's name is Harsh, what other actions would you expect from him?
But seriously, looking at the doc and not mentioned in the article. Harsh apparently tried to negotiate, failed, then tried to "transfer" the domain. When Kneen called him out on this, Harsh suggested it was someone else, and that he wouldn't have done this since he found a suitable alternative.
So I'm pretty sure Harsh was being purposely manipulative in that situation. None of this makes any sense and is a waste of resources so I hope Harsh loses badly.
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#9I have sympathy for Kneen, but do we really, as a society, benefit from people that buy useful domains and then sit on them for 16 years while doing nothing with them?
The bigger question is whether anyone has the authority to take it away from him.
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