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In article <D0Kt98.1s1@world.std.com>, amw@world.std.com (Anita M Wilcox) writes:
> My understanding is that they used to do this until recently, due to
> their "workload". Question is, what can I do about this, and is this 
> legal. If I register both domain names as trademarks, do they have to
> give it to me? Or, if I use a second company name, but point it at the
> same IP address...? Any help would be appreciated.

No, the trademark registration just gives you legal ammo to stop someone
else from using the name in a way that causes confusion.  It doesn't mean
you can force someone else to do something (only stop doing something).
Think of the Yellow Pages.  A trademark means you can stop other companies
from using that trademark word in their yellow page ads.  It doesn't mean
you can force the yellow pages to print your ad more times just because you
have multiple trademarks.

I wouldn't be surprised when the Internic's government funds run out they
institute a fee, such as ANSI does for X.500 names.  I believe ANSI charges
$5,000 for each registered name.  That doesn't effect large companies
that much.  For example, AT&T paid to register several "names" including
weird ones like "288."

In the short term, I think the Internic is trying to figure out ways
of preventing "hoarding" of names.  Limiting companies to one name each
seems like a reasonable compromise.
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Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
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