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By: Frank Michlick

Frank Michlick — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:55:51 +0000

Dan,

Thank you for your comments.

I agree with your comments in general, the lines are getting blurry. Even more so it is important to differentiate between who does what and not to generalize. Hence the idea to point out that Mr. Isenberg was using whois privacy himself (if he is still the owner of the domain).

Re: the trademark
If this was to come down to a dispute, this wouldn’t be the first case where a trademark holder has ‘more’ right to a domain – at least according to WIPO. I’d actually like to see Mr. Isenberg on the panel on this one, even though he might be too involved to participate.

/Frank

By: Dave Zan

Dave Zan — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:30:46 +0000

Doug’s registered couponcodes.com since 1999, as you’ll notice. And I’m sure he didn’t mean to brand all domainers as cybersquatters.

However, it’s getting harder to tell “who is” and “who isn’t” with some of these registrars involved in such “shenanigans”.

The TM for couponcode.com was not applied for til 2005-2006. Itll be hard to argue that couponcodes.com is infringing on their TM and might even be considered generic.

By: KH

KH — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 03:14:40 +0000

Good work. I look forward to him explaining this to be measured against what we wrote.