Yup,I feel like a mouse waiting for a piece of
cheese to drop on the ground.
The
.info names have to run the guantlet of
the world's trademark system.
The 400
generic or city names I started with shrunk
to
200 after passing through the US, European Union,
Canada, and Australia trademark
databases.
(Actually less than 200. After discovering that you
have to
use a hyphen to uncover multi-word trademarks
in the US database (TESS), a few
more city names
were dropped.)
After viewing your message, I realized "movies"
might
be trademarked. Sure enough, "movies"
is trademarked (New Zealand, 1991).
Now
I've just started accessing the UK and New Zealand
databases.
I just found
out today, that the UK trademark database
contains names not trademarked in the
European Union (CTM)
database.
My big fear is that there is a trademark database
in
some country like -insert small country name here-
that will take the rest of
the names out of circulation.
I personally have wasted all kinds of money
pre-registering
names.
Those poor trademark holders that need protection!
The beer manufacturer
that has "game".
The fruit juice company that has "poker".
The sock manufacturer
that has "computer".
The hair products company that almost got "411".
The car
manufacturer that can get "800".
The hair dryer manufacturer that can get "airline".
The
bicycle parts manufacturer that can get "airlines".
The razor blade company that
can get "auto".
The tobacco company that can get "bank".
The jewelry company
that can get "car".
The dress company that can get "calendar".
The clothing
manufacturer that can get "dictionary".
The cigarette company that gets "money".
The
fire extinguisher manufacturer that gets "home".
I could go on and on.
And few
people care enough to complain
or make the situation public.
The news organizations
and domain
buying public don't seem to have
picked up on this at all!!!!
Steve
Feibish