The Lawsuit That Wasn't

John Hawkins writes "Brass Knuckles Webzine (http://www.brassknuckles.net) has done an article on a recent attempt by Revlon to acquire the flex.org domain name from Seaholm high school. Revlon threatened to take legal action against the high school unless the high school gave up their domain name. However, soon after Revlon was contacted about a possible article that would be coming out on the dispute, they changed their tune. Was it coincidental timing or the fear of bad press making a corporation do the right thing? Read it here (http://www.brassknuckles.net/revlon.html) and decide for yourself." I think this is a fairly common sequence of events. If a threatening letter suffices to scare the recipient into giving up the name, the company gained the name for nothing. Letters are cheap.