Dot .CN Trademark issues

[izopod]

From CBSwatch.com:

Trademark tussles in China domain

Speculators are reserving many famous trademark names in the newly created "dot-cn" domain, the official Internet address for the People's Republic of China. EnCirca, a domain registrar, said cyber squatters are ignoring the history of battles and losses they endured in the dot-com domain. "The dot-cn registry dispute policies are not as trademark-friendly as dot-com's are," EnCirca said. "This means that trademark owners will need to repeat the battle they waged." The top countries represented by pre-registrants for the China domain are the United States (46 percent), Germany (10 percent) and Switzerland (9 percent).


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This explains the Verisign.cn, CocaCola.cn, etc registrations. Also worthy to note: Looks like everyone else but China pre-reg'd these names.

 

[NamePopper.com]

Very interesting. Sounds like a TM nightmare for a lot of companies.

Also interesting that nearly half of the .CN pre-regs are from America.

 

[DrWho]

Originally posted by izopod
From CBSwatch.com:

Trademark tussles in China domain

Speculators are reserving many famous trademark names in the newly created "dot-cn" domain, the official Internet address for the People's Republic of China. EnCirca, a domain registrar, said cyber squatters are ignoring the history of battles and losses they endured in the dot-com domain. "The dot-cn registry dispute policies are not as trademark-friendly as dot-com's are," EnCirca said. "This means that trademark owners will need to repeat the battle they waged." The top countries represented by pre-registrants for the China domain are the United States (46 percent), Germany (10 percent) and Switzerland (9 percent).


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This explains the Verisign.cn, CocaCola.cn, etc registrations. Also worthy to note: Looks like everyone else but China pre-reg'd these names.

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