On Tue, 9 May 2006, Jethro R Binks wrote:
> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Ben Parish wrote:
>
>> If an organisation ever wanted to use those domains or if they were
>> being used inappropriately, then I am sure you would be able to have
>> them confiscated as the trademark owner. In the meantime these
>> cybersquatters can keep paying the annual fees until they can no longer
>> afford to. Good luck to them. They'll need it.
>
> We went through this process. Some enterprising student registered a
> variation on our University name under .co.uk (and put stickers on
> noticeboards and in lifts around campus advertising the domain and related
> 'business opportunities'). We appealed to Nominet and they found in our
> favour:
>
> http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/drs/decisions/?contentId=2175
It is however worth noting that different domain registries have different
rules and procedures for this sort of thing. Nominet are probably one of
the 'better' ones.
Jon.
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Jon Warbrick
Web/News Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge
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