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Man Asks $75M for 'Lambo.com,' Court Gives It to Lamborghini for Free
- kylecazar 10mo agoIf he had spent some time to throw content of his choosing on there, he would have likely kept it. How does the $10,000 he spent for the domain work? I assume he just eats it. That doesn't feel right.
- toomuchtodo 10mo agoIt’s a $10k fine for acting in bad faith.
- droptablemain 10mo agoIt's state-facilitated theft from an individual to a $20 billion multinational corporation. Sure he tried to do something bad but he should've been compensated a fair market value for the domain.
- an0malous 10mo agoWait it’s illegal to squat on domains? Isn’t this what 90% of domains are currently owned for? How do I get a squatted domain as a startup?
- Schiendelman 10mo agoYou find this legal decision and read it!
- nitwit005 10mo agoYou can't squat on trademarks, basically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Protection_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Pr...
- an0malous 10mo agoSo if someone is squatting purpleunicorn.com and I register a trademark for purpleunicorn, I can force them to give me the domain? Or does the trademark have to exist prior to the domain purchase?
- nitwit005 10mo agoThat seems entirely inferable from that wikipedia link. How would you have a bad faith intent to profit from a trademark that didn't yet exist? Edit: typo
- an0malous 10mo ago> That seems entirely inferable from that wikipedia link. I did read the link and it wasn’t clear to me which is why I asked. > How would you have a bad faith intent to profit from a trademark that didn't yet exist? Isn’t that what most squatters are doing when they purchase something like “zero.ai” or “spectra.ai”? Even if the trademark doesn’t exist yet, they have no intent to use the domain for a business and are assuming someone will want to create a business or trademark with that name one day.
- wiry99 10mo agoIt's considered bad faith to sell a domain that you purchased? He didn't even offer it to Lamborghini, just for general sale.
- badc0ffee 10mo agoLambo's Deli in Toronto just got screwed.
- TrackerFF 10mo agoThis is one recurring thing with the domain squatters - they just sit on the domains and don't bother to do anything that legitimizes them. I guess this is something LLMs can help with, though. Shouldn't be hard to vibe code something that looks "legit" and drive traffic to the site.
- byb 10mo agoThe website https://nissan.com https://nissan.com shows how to avoid this outcome.
- ChrisArchitect 10mo agoRIP Uzi, Legend.
- xeonmc 10mo agoGo, Daddy!
- colonelspace 10mo agoI think changing his name to Richard Lambo may not have avoided this outcome.
- ChrisArchitect 10mo agoDoes Lamborghini have a trademark claim on the word "Lambo" or it just on 'similarity' grounds?
- paulddraper 10mo agohttps://trademarks.justia.com/987/65/lambo-98765111.html https://trademarks.justia.com/987/65/lambo-98765111.html
- kj4ips 10mo agoNote that the status on this is entered/not assigned, so it's in the works. However, the court may have required that they do so before proceeding. The offending use does not have to be a 1:1 match to dilute. (not a lawyer; not legal advice)
- kj4ips 10mo agoTrademarks are about recognizability, not about some objective similarity. There's no magic Levenshtein distance from a trademark. However, they are also scoped to domains, so if there was some non-car business with such a name, they would also be entitled to the name, and the domains tend to be first-come first-serve in those kinds of cases. Think of all the "Acme" or "A-1" companies that all have different products, and the general public doesn't have an issue conflating them. (not a lawyer; not legal advice)
- runamuck 10mo ago$75M seems like a pipe dream. Lamborghini could get a vanity TLD (.lambo) for around $2M all in. Much cooler than a .com, IMHO
- nullbyte808 10mo agoGot too greedy. Could have sold it for millions to a random person holding the empty bag.
- iqihs 10mo agoA terrible domain squatter and an equally terrible ruling I wonder if web3 will eliminate the possibility of these situations ever happening in the future