Comments on: Trademark Holders Continue to Reclaim .Me Domain Names

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Who Didn’t Do Their Homework on .Co Launch? - The Domain Industry's News Source

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:43:20 +0000

[...] TLD is launched, or a ccTLD is relaunched, you see a lot of small time cybersquatters jump in. The same thing happened with .me. I think it’s mostly an education thing; people recall back in the 90s when some people made [...]

By: DomainersChoice.com

DomainersChoice.com — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:17:33 +0000

Overstock – this is a generic term. They might have a TM is the US but this shouldn’t entitle them to get it everywhere else. They for example do not own overstock.co.uk

By: Domain Name Wire » News » American Express Wants .Me Domain, Samsung Goes After ccTLDs - The Domain Industry's News Source

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:16:38 +0000

[...] companies/brands to get their corresponding .me domain names through UDRP include Overstock, Mozilla, Firefox, ExxonMobil, Sprite, and [...]

By: Ms Domainer

Ms Domainer — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:40:46 +0000

Andrew,

That’s what I figured.

I guess Metro Media had more money than brains.

By: D

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:00:25 +0000

This is organized by .me people how can someone fall for such simple stupid promo ?Typosquatters are smart folks and they know that there is no type-in traffic on .me

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:18:09 +0000

@ Ms Domainer – that’s correct. But the domain had sponsored links related to soda and Metro Media admitted that Coca-Cola was the rightful owner.

By: Ms Domainer

Ms Domainer — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:06:21 +0000

In itself, the word “sprite” is generic. It’s another word for “spirit.”

I suspect, though, that the owner was squatting on it to make money off a TM.