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: Curt Stevens (stevens@sigi.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
: : Actually, there was a well publicised case where the InterNIC  yanked
: : mcdonalds.com from someone when the McDonalds Corporation complained.

Actually, the yank was short-lived. The party in question is Josh Quittner,
until this week the cyberspace columnist for Newsday, a daily paper.

He registered the name as a joke after failing to get McDonald's interested
in it, but protested the yank. Internic decided that they would deal only in
issues of priority of use on the net, not trademark law. Quittner has
offered to trade the name to McDonald's in return for a year of T1 feed and
equipment to an elementary school in a poor part of NYC; so far, McD has
offered $3000, but the needed total is $5000.

	.....Paul
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