From: "Lynne L. Harrison" <lharrison@mhv.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 15:13:29 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: domain name zapping threat by Internic
Message-ID: <9606260152.AA24057@mhv.net>
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At 10:21 PM 6/25/96 GMT, Greg Miller wrote:
>
>	Since the NIC charges $100 per registration, you can bet there will be
>some legislation somewhere along the line.  They must be makeing 5000-10000%
>profit.

  Regarding NIC's policy concerning the taking away of domain names if X
states Y usurped his trademark, there are at least 4 suits pending wherein
the domain name owners/plaintiffs are challenging the alleged infringement,
namely:

First lawsuit - Roadrunner v. NSI
background at: http://www.patents.com/nsi.sht
complaint at: http://www.patents.com/nsicpt1.sht

Second lawsuit - DCI v. DCI and NSI
background at: http://www.patents.com/dci/dci.sht
complaint at: 
http://infolawalert.com/source/src061496_dc_complaint.html

Third lawsuit - Giacalone v. NSI et al.
complaint at: http://zeus.bna.com/e-law/cases/giac.html

Fourth lawsuit - Clue Computing v. NSI
background at:  http://www.clue.com/legal/index.html
complaint at:  http://www.clue.com/legal/complain.html

Fun and games....

Regards -
Lynne




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