Originally posted by kvinsencius
Hi Miles,
Thanks for your post. Acutually when I said that I might have found something. I was referring to game shows on TV. I also found that all the games I checked (pretty new and famous games) were trademarked. The funny thing is that hardly any of the games hold the .com version of their name. Two examples are Counter Strike and Doom.
Counterstrike.com is being used by corporate security and intelligence company, which has had the domain since 1996. They seem to be a well-established business which has nothing to do with games; it seems that the company making the Counterstrike game would have no grounds to attempt a legal grab of counterstrike.com, either via the UDRP or civil court.
The makers of doom did in fact try to get the domain name "doom.com" via the UDRP, and they famously failed:
http://www.arbforum.com/domains/decisions/95002.htm
The domain seems to have been re-registered or bought since it's original reg in 1995, and is regged by someone in Quebec. Doom.com seems to currently unused. Perhaps someone else is familiar with the details of doom.com's current situation.
The original owner of doom.com got lucky, although the arb decision was, for once, legally and ethically corrrect (in this specific case, with no infringing activity by registrant).
Miles