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Nothing to do with Trademarks & cubersquatting

> Potentially more concerning, however, could
> be people who sign up for Gmail accounts with
> a common or company-trademarked name with a
> profit motive. The practice is similar to
> parties who purchase potentially lucrative,
> trademarked domain names and attempt to sell
> them to the owner, a practice called domain
> squatting.

No, this has NOTHING to do with "domain squatting" (your term). Getting an email address @anydomain.com has NOTHING to do with trademark violation. You are insinuating that a company can't allow any email names that might be a trademark? So MichaelJ@example.com is a violation of Michael Jordans Trademark? How About DoctorJ@gmail.com? Does Julius Irving own that one? What about DoctorJ@yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, or @zdnet.com? Must system administrators be aware of all worldwide trademark names when handing out EMAIL ADDRESSES?

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Don't even start lumping email names in with trademarks or cybersquatting. Its a frigging email addy, not a domain name.

Oh yah, and I know you had no clue about Gmail until someone told you a week ago, but invites sold for almost $400 EACH the first week of May, when even "TomCruise@Gmail.com" was still available.

Posted by: Number13   Posted on: 07/01/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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