Domain Registration Related News
Domain Name Infringement
September 2004
It is very fair for Henry Ford to get upset if
some nerd tries to register another car called
FORD or AFFORD or even FOARD. He might get not
quite so upset if they call it PORD or DORD but he
has absolutely no reason or legal right at all if
a budding car designer is set on calling his new
car, with Spanish flavour, an ESPORD. It might
imply similarity but no expert or even amateur car
buyer is going to confuse it with dear old Henry's
mass produced range.
However it seems that the youngsters at Google
have developed a keen sense of paranoia to protect
their new found wealth. They seem to think that
everyone wants to be like them, to ape their
financial success. Any name remotely google like
is now a fair target for their enforcers.
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