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by themaninthedark 2979 days ago
Perhaps so. But how would you have the issue resolved? Should the domain go to the most well known party? The product a reasonable person expects to find when they type in the address?

What happens if I register icar.com for product that syncs your car to the cloud. Then Apple decides they want to compete with Elon Musk, with their new Icar. Who will get the domain?

What happens when a large company decides to rebrand it's self and wants the domain?

What happens to Nissan? http://www.nissan.com
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dfxm12 2979 days ago
Going by iPad.com as an example, you'd play a game of chicken with Apple, because the moment you try to monetize that site in almost any way, they'll sue you for trademark infringement. You'll hope they offer you a ton of money for it, but Apple's brand is strong enough that they don't need it.

Mr. Nissan is lucky that he had an existing business that wasn't car related and he only registered his name...

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themaninthedark 2978 days ago
Mr. Nissan is lucky indeed.

One of the reasons I used Apple is because it is easy to point to some examples of them acting in bad faith. Iphone and the music side both had legal niceties surrounding them, from all the parties involved.

If if was a small company or a single person in either of these cases, it would generally be a steam roll. Perhaps ipad.com is a squatter but I would want to make very sure before I give the rights to Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_iPhone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

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onetimemanytime 2979 days ago
Very dumb of Apple IMO. Just pay the guy. So what that he wants $x million?
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jakobegger 2978 days ago
Then they would also have to pay millions for applewatch.com macbook.com ipadpro.com macpro.com iphone7.com iphone8.com iphonex.com ...
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onetimemanytime 2978 days ago
>> applewatch.com, ipadpro.com macpro.com...iphone7.com iphone8.com iphonex.com

UDRP cost a few thousand dollars. iPad.com, IIRC, was registered before Apple came up with iPad. Plus, iPad is an entire product line.

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varjag 2979 days ago
If $x is more than $y they lose not owning the domain, it makes no business sense.
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mixologic 2979 days ago
Wow. Nissan.com has a dropdown labled "people's opinions" with 505 pages. Thats.. one way to build a navigation.
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cobbzilla 2979 days ago
the most charitable explanation might be that they can't afford good web design because all their money is funding their legal defense.
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