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by sloxy 2971 days ago
why? nissan.com is owned by Mr. Uzi Nissan so there is a reasonable defense that he has a justifiable claim to the domain. seems a lot more clear cut than this.
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So you're saying that if the owner of france.com was a Mr. James France, the French government wouldn't have done the same thing?
The website claims that Nissan (the guy)'s business existed before Datsun became Nissan. I think there ought to be some kind of prior art for trademarks as well. It is not fair that a business suddenly not be allowed to use their trademark (even if they fail to register it) just because someone else registers it.
They might have. No definitive answer to that alternate timeline.

If his name was France, his use of the domain would have been more defensible(depending on what he was doing with the domain).