Re: [NANOG] Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick () cybernothing org>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Pim van Riezen wrote:

> > > Parody and criticism are protected under trademark law(although those
> > > rights are being eroded quickly.)
> >
> > No one has a sense of humor any more.  A lot of folks have had
> > <companyname>sucks.com taken away from them due to "trademark violations".
>
> Which brings me to the interesting borderline case:
>
>   companyname.sucks.com
>
> Can WIPO take away hostname records?:)

SWIPO has been pretty good at taking everything else so far.