Domainer Ethics

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What gets me about comments like these:

http://www.nic.uk/digitalAssets/16226_Royal_Bank_of_Scotland.pdf

We would generally be in favour of option (c), as there is currently little incentive for abusers to stop registering infringing or fraudulent domain names.

http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=3587

"We would like to see a detterent to cyber squatting" ...... "someone registered smirnoff.mobi within hours" Roger Evans www.Diageo.com

Is that at the same time this is going on:

Britain's 12-year-old alcoholics
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2281379.ece

"the Lohan effect"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/17/ndebt17.xml

Yet they don't stop selling alcohol or credit cards!

I agree cybersquatting is unethical and wrong however even if you got a serial cybersquatter to pay the fine they must make that an hour!

Money talks in any business:

Drinks firm's £100m whisky boost
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/6365531.stm

Vodka.com domain sells for $3 million
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6144214.html

However maybe its time we all showed them who can be ethical..... amnesty on trademarked names anyone?

 

[olebean]

What gets me about comments like these:

http://www.nic.uk/digitalAssets/16226_Royal_Bank_of_Scotland.pdf



http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=3587

"We would like to see a detterent to cyber squatting" ...... "someone registered smirnoff.mobi within hours" Roger Evans www.Diageo.com

Is that at the same time this is going on:

Britain's 12-year-old alcoholics
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2281379.ece

"the Lohan effect"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/17/ndebt17.xml

Yet they don't stop selling alcohol or credit cards!

I agree cybersquatting is unethical and wrong however even if you got a serial cybersquatter to pay the fine they must make that an hour!

Money talks in any business:

Drinks firm's £100m whisky boost
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/6365531.stm

Vodka.com domain sells for $3 million
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6144214.html

However maybe its time we all showed them who can be ethical..... amnesty on trademarked names anyone?

What is ethics? It paying to legality

Registering domains with a TM conitation is not illegal nor was selling guns to Saddam when he was in power or selling pills that knowingly kill kids

Unethical huh?

 

[Whois-SearchWhois-Search is verified member.]

What is ethics? It paying to legality

Registering domains with a TM conitation is not illegal nor was selling guns to Saddam when he was in power or selling pills that knowingly kill kids

Unethical huh?

True.

But if Nominet/Companies really wanted to stop the people on:

http://www.nic.uk/disputes/drs/decisions/3cases/

What could they sue them for?

 

[olebean]

If i were one of those individuals listed on the website I'll be suing for defamation!

 

[tifosi]

If i were one of those individuals listed on the website I'll be suing for defamation!

Why? When you register a typo domain name of a registered (or unregistered for that matter) TM you are with knowledge doing so with the intent to profit from the goodwill of the trademark owner.

The confusion and passing off are a vague area because they are typos, but the intent is clear.

I have my views on the DRS, anyone can read my input. I think typos like these leave a rotten taste and just give us all a bad name.

S

 

[olebean]

Why? When you register a typo domain name of a registered (or unregistered for that matter) TM you are with knowledge doing so with the intent to profit from the goodwill of the trademark owner.

The confusion and passing off are a vague area because they are typos, but the intent is clear.

I have my views on the DRS, anyone can read my input. I think typos like these leave a rotten taste and just give us all a bad name.

S

I disagree... hotwheels is a case in point..