FC: Bill Purdy owns one in three of ALL washingtonpost domain names

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Background on the Bill Purdy case:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=purdy

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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 02:30:28 -0600
From: jamie rishaw <jamie () arpa com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Cc: politech () politechbot com, farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: Bill Purdy owns one in three of ALL washingtonpost domain names

Declan,

  I've thought up till now that Bill had a noble cause, but this last message
made me think.

  So I did a little digging.

  Bill Purdy has not registered 1, 2, or even 10 domain names.  I walked
the DNS tree (I have access to the raw tld zones).  There are 154 domain
names that reference "washingtonpost".  Out of these 154 domain names,
a staggering 52 (over 1/3rd) appear to be registered to Bill.  In addition
to this being an incredible waste of money, I see it really as tort.

  While I don't condone whois slamming, here is the list of domain names
that he appears to have registered.  Note that some 20% of them (10/52)
were registered in 2003 alone.

  Speech freedom is paramount, but isn't this a little too far?

  I don't understand how "TheWashingtonPostShareholder.com" or
"TheWashingtonPostNews.com" constitutes anything short of blatant, tortious
trademark violation.

jamie

27-jan-2003 IHATETHEWASHINGTONPOST.COM
27-jan-2003 ILOVETHEWASHINGTONPOST.COM
27-jan-2003 JESUSLOVESTHEWASHINGTONPOST.COM
27-jan-2003 SATANLOVESTHEWASHINGTONPOST.COM
12-jan-2003 THEWASHINGTONPOST-MOTHEROFJESUS.COM
08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOST-MYBOOK.COM
27-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOST-NOSPINZONE.COM
16-jan-2003 THEWASHINGTONPOST30YEARABORTIONSLAUGHTER.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTBABY.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTBIRTH.COM
08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTCHRISTIAN.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTCONFESSION.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTEFFECT.COM
27-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTFACTOR.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTFAME.COM
08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTFETUS.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTFRAME.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTILLNESS.COM
12-jan-2003 THEWASHINGTONPOSTJESUS.COM
08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTJEW.COM
08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTKORAN.COM
08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTLIBERAL.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTLIFE.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTMISSION.COM
08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTMUSLIM.COM
18-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTNEWS.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTOCCASSION.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTREIGN.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTRELIGION.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTRESCUE.COM
12-jan-2003 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSATAN.COM
24-dec-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSHAREHOLDER.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSORROWS.COM
27-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSPIN.COM
08-oct-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSUCKS.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSYNDROME.COM
08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTUNBORNCHILD.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTUNDERSTANDING.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTWALK.COM
25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTWOMB.COM
08-sep-2002 WASHINGTONPOST-BILLPURDY.COM
26-jan-2003 WASHINGTONPOST-IAMMADASHELLANDIAMNOTGOINGTOTAKEITANYMORE.COM
11-sep-2002 WASHINGTONPOST-NEWYORKTIMES.COM
27-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOST-OREILLY.COM
25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOST-PLANNEDPARENTHOOD.COM
25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTCANDIDATES.COM
25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTCONFUSION.COM
08-sep-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTHARDASS.COM
25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTHEALTH.COM
25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTSACRILEGE.COM
25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTSUFFERING.COM
26-jan-2003 WHYCANIHAVETHEWASHINGTONPOSTSATANBUTNOTTHEWASHINGTONPOSTJESUS.COM

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