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Having worked in the domain industry, and closely with many of the individuals currently bidding on these new tld's (and in some cases have already won ./someth
by verelo 12y ago
Having worked in the domain industry, and closely with many of the individuals currently bidding on these new tld's (and in some cases have already won ./something/) I can say this is just a land grab. No one has any idea what to do with .nike, .coke or .whatever, they're just after them because they dont want someone else to get them.
- pkfrank 12y agoI've been out of the "domain game" for a while, but aren't all of these TM-holders basically allowed to "claim" their names during the "Sunrise" period? That seems quite the opposite of a land grab: opening up early to avoid speculators snapping up copyrighted terms.
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- dijit 12y agosunrise doesn't apply to the actual gTLD, only with $something.TLD so, I hold the trademark Firebox. I can use it to get Firebox.london or Firebox.ecommerce but not .firebox
- verelo 12y agoUnfortunatly the trademark rights are not extended to TLD's so this is a bit of an exception. That does apply to domains in general however.
- CalRobert 12y agoI worked a while back for a major company involved in the TLD rollout and was rather taken aback about how callous they were regarding what felt akin to extortion.
- wpietri 12y agoI've seen a lot of people have their morals shaped by the work they do. To me that's a lesson about being careful about the jobs I take. I got out of finance years ago, and now won't take advertising gigs, either. I don't want to be one of those people who ends up callous just because it's profitable.
- CalRobert 12y agoWell, I changed departments in a company I was working for. It took less than 6 months to leave.
- pacofvf 12y agoI would redirect amazon.com to shop.amazon, and then the other sites have more sense, like prime.amazon or local.amazon, etc etc.