Comments on: National Arbitration Forum Settles Suit with Attorney General http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/20/national-arbitration-forum-settles-suit-with-attorney-general/ Domain Name Industry News and Views Sat, 26 May 2012 20:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: drp http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/20/national-arbitration-forum-settles-suit-with-attorney-general/comment-page-1/#comment-444139 drp Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:34:39 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=7420#comment-444139 I owned two domain names that contained my last name for about five years. Then a major corporation whose corporate name includes my name (but spelled differently) went after the domain names. You can't trademark proper names, so there was no trademark. Although I bought the domain names well before disputes were supposed to go to arbitration, the case went to the NAF. I made a pretty good argument citing all sorts of precident to other NAF rulings, but naturally lost. As an experiment, using the NAF I then went after another domain name which happened to include one of my registered trademarks. I used the same argument which had been successful against me. Naturally, I lost here too, this argument being complete BS. Just one more bit of evidence that the NAF favors the big guys (who are likely to bring it more business ). I owned two domain names that contained my last name for about five years. Then a major corporation whose corporate name includes my name (but spelled differently) went after the domain names. You can’t trademark proper names, so there was no trademark.

Although I bought the domain names well before disputes were supposed to go to arbitration, the case went to the NAF. I made a pretty good argument citing all sorts of precident to other NAF rulings, but naturally lost.

As an experiment, using the NAF I then went after another domain name which happened to include one of my registered trademarks. I used the same argument which had been successful against me. Naturally, I lost here too, this argument being complete BS.

Just one more bit of evidence that the NAF favors the big guys (who are likely to bring it more business ).

]]> By: Darren Spielman http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/20/national-arbitration-forum-settles-suit-with-attorney-general/comment-page-1/#comment-443470 Darren Spielman Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:20:39 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=7420#comment-443470 Wow. I did not think NAF would cave that easily and that quickly. Wow. I did not think NAF would cave that easily and that quickly.

]]> By: Patrick McDermott http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/20/national-arbitration-forum-settles-suit-with-attorney-general/comment-page-1/#comment-442822 Patrick McDermott Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:32:25 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=7420#comment-442822 Andrew, Please read Michael Berg's take on this. It's quite disturbing that the NAF is arbitrating domain dispute cases. Anyone who lost a generic domain thru a NAF decision should really consider pressuring ICANN to have another Arbitrator review the case. I hope all those credit card consumers who lost their arbitration cases under NAF will also have recourse to have their cases reviewed. See MHB's blog posting at The Domains here: http://snurl.com/NAFReport Andrew,

Please read Michael Berg’s take on this.

It’s quite disturbing that the NAF is arbitrating domain dispute cases.

Anyone who lost a generic domain thru a NAF decision should really consider pressuring ICANN to have another Arbitrator review the case.

I hope all those credit card consumers who lost their arbitration cases under NAF will
also have recourse to have their cases reviewed.

See MHB’s blog posting at The Domains here:
http://snurl.com/NAFReport

]]> By: Latest Domainer News http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/20/national-arbitration-forum-settles-suit-with-attorney-general/comment-page-1/#comment-528830 Latest Domainer News Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:13:05 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=7420#comment-528830 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">National Arbitration Forum Settles Suit with Attorney General - http://tinyurl.com/nqta5s</span></span>

National Arbitration Forum Settles Suit with Attorney General – http://tinyurl.com/nqta5s

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