Sender: "Steve Eppley" <•••@••.•••>
James Brazell wrote:
>The policy is called "first right of usage." Simply by using the domain
>name you have a legal right to pre-empt a trade mark filled after you are
>using it. I just went through this and lost our domain name.....
I don't understand your final sentence, Jim. Would you mind elaborating?
Also, what is meant by "using" a domain name? Is that something
more than possessing a name? (Example: suppose you had an email
address at a domain but no one ever sent you mail there? Is that
still "using" the domain?)
What *evidence* would be required to pre-empt someone's attempt to
trademark one's domain name? Would a message from InterNIC granting
the domain name be sufficient?
---Steve (Steve Eppley •••@••.•••)
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