Re: domain name speculation
MIKE NELSON WROTE:
>I can't see a difference between Buying and selling Domain
>names and Buying and selling Real Estate...
>A domain name is Internet real estate. A location in which
>your business resides. Buying a prime piece of real estate
>for investment, "or later use" is not un ethical.
To my limited neural capabilities, this issue seems very
easy. If a name is trademarked already you cannot use it to
do business in Print, Television or a Brick-and-Mortar
store. Ford might sue me if I start a "Ford Books" or "Ford
Amusement Park". So why should I claim the right to
www.ford.com just because I reserved it first?
I can understand generic words like drugs.com being valuable
to someone.But already Trademarked names should be protected
on the Web just as they are protected in the non-Web world
if the Web wants to grow up and join the rest of commerce.
Just my 2 cents!
Nari Kannan
Zelos Technologies, Inc.
5236 Pinon Valley Road
Colorado Springs
CO 80919.
Ph: 719-260-9501
Fax: 719-260-1926
www.zelos.com
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Received on Thu Aug 19 1999 - 20:01:33 CDT
