CyberSquatter Loses Case Against Nokia
from the so-many-nicknames dept
A cybersquatter in the UK has lost his claim to the domain nokia.me.uk, even though he claimed that his nickname was Nokia. Sounds like he might have a case... if he hadn't also registered the domains: vodafone.me.uk, orange.me.uk, virgin.me.uk, bmw.me.uk, nissan.me.uk and sony.me.uk. It would be tough to convince us that all of those were his nicknames. This quote from the ruling sums it all up: "As Lady Bracknell might have put it, to have registered one domain name corresponding to the brand name of a major mobile telecommunications company may be regarded as a misfortune; to register two looks like carelessness. To register four - plus the trade marks of two prominent automobile companies and a major electronics company - looks very much like abusive registration."
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