I have registered names for
my customers, telling them "you better get it before someone else does"...some did
not take me seriously saying "this isn't the year 2000 yet" (Back in 1998).I knew
there were other companies around the globe that could use that name. The only protection
that their trademark offered was in the use of a logo, there are indeed several other
companies with the same name operating out there today legally.
Anyone should be
allowed to register a name and do whatever they want with it as long as they are
not trying to represent an existing company, and logos are the means of identifying
one from the other!
ICANN...stick with the basic trademark issues, the ones that
were handed down at registration time. Trademarks and Domain Names are two different
animals, if a company wishes to retain a domain name, let them pay for it..period.
A
series of numbers and or letters in a url is NOT a trademark and never will be. Because
you own a trademark does not give the right to own any and all domain names with
your trademarked name in them.
Does the Ford Motor Company have the right to own
*ford*.com, where the asterics represent other words? I think NOT, they don't even
have the right to own ford.com unless they got there first or paid later.
If someone
starts a site and uses the Ford Logo then they have a case, period, otherwise forget
it.
I say get out of trademark business altogether!
Thank you for your time.