Comments on: AT&T’s YellowPages Paid $3.85 Million In Cash For YP.com

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By: steve

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By: paul shaw

paul shaw — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:31:33 +0000

‘40z’,

I appreciate your response in describing the process as reverse hijacking, but I have never been involved in such matters personally. I further appreciate that many cases have been brought to WIPO and NAF in which the decisions have been in favour of the respondent (thus being deemed reverse hijacking).

My stance is that businesses legitimately trading with TM’s/IP rights, registered company names should take precedence over the ownership of a domain name to be used commercially.

You presume I ‘know little’ about the matter, but I have some experience of the legal procedures and have successfully brought a complaint to WIPO for one of the domain names which rightfully belonged to my company (at that time). I do not wish to offer ‘legal’ advice to anybody concerning these matters, but I am very familiar with the proceedings for such complaints and the depth of material evidence needed to successfully bring a complaint to WIPO and would be willing to point this out to anybody.

My view is that domain name registration should be treated in the same way as company registration/trademark registration. You apply for a domain but provide evidence for its future use and your legitimate ownership for that domain and also checks are made against the name (similar to patent applications). Thus trying to end speculative purchasing or cyber squatting and hence domain name legal cases.

I fully understand the market for trading domain names, but I would prefer to see more regulation in the matter.

I hope this winds a few people up to create more feedback.

PS ‘40z’ is that your photo on your blog………….

By: Dmitri

Dmitri — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:20:41 +0000

maybe… $3.85 Million is just a little money for a giant company like AT&T .
View months ago, vibrator.com were sold for $ 1 Million

By: Sebastien Provencher

Sebastien Provencher — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:13:15 +0000

Makes sense as well. Sensis, the Australian Yellow Pages, re-branded to Yellow a few years ago.

By: 40z

40z — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:02:06 +0000

Paul you have described a process called ‘reverse hijacking’. These kind of attempts get denied all the time and in fact can create liability for you trying it. You shouldn’t be trying to give legal advice about something you know little about.

there are hundreds of examples of people who have tried the process you described to ‘reverse hijack’ a domain name over the past decade. here is a little reading for you about just one:

http://www.adrf...ions/109368.htm

By: 40z

40z — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:48:54 +0000

Most people don’t know the difference between a cybersquatter, and an entrepreneur who is investing in and developing a true generic. You would think after almost 2 decades to figure it out, more people would have by now.

If you ask me YP.com went pretty cheap, all things considered.

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:41:49 +0000

Paul – you live in a simple world. Go to TM owners? TM where? The world is rather large, and there are multiple names TMed by different companies in different countries. Does the age matter? Location?

At least you the decency to differentiate between cybersquatters and speculators. Speculators gambled – let them reap their rewards.

PPS. Dear lord will people stop spamming that damn brownbook.net URL everywhere.