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Old 11-23-2008, 10:20 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by carlton View Post
Jon - What an interesting find. Just read the 2003 WIPO case and this is quite significant for domainers who are tyrying to protect their generic domains.

The National Association of Realtors Lost the case against respondent for the domain: Realtors.biz

This merits becoming a separate thread on its own as a number of people have discussed and debated "over-reaching" by the Assoc. of Realtors as a result of their repeated attempts at stripping domainers of any name with "Realtor" in it. They have even denied Realtors themselves from registering and using geo domains with the word "realtor" in them.

I was not aware of the case you cited. Glad you pointed it out.
This is similar - http://www.dnforum.com/f557/trademar...ad-335970.html

Going off the outcome of this case, if FS put up a site that promoted Chilli Beans glasses, making sure that no other glasses were promoted, he could keep the name (ahh, if only things were so simple...).
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