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"sucks".com Sites Win Legal Victory

Posted by timothy on from the doesn't-necssarily-suck dept.

amyandjake writes: "Dan Parisi (sucks.com) wins a courtroom battle to keep Michaelbloombergsucks.com instead of giving it to Bloomberg." I'll admit that I used to consider the dot-sucks domains to have few redeeming qualities, but the efforts to take them away have helped change my mind about them. Bloomberg can spare a few dollars to register danparisisucks.com, can't he?

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  1. Re:General Motors cases ..... by ahaning · · Score: 5

    No, 2600 still owns FuckGeneralMotors.com and FordReallySucks.com. So, this might give them a leg up on the FordReallySucks.com site, but who knows about FuckGeneralMotors.com.

    Ford sued 2600 for redirecting visitors of FuckGeneralMotors.com to Ford.com. Apparently visitors to the site might think that Ford is trying to harm GM. Ford's customers are stupid, I guess. They even have the transcript available on their website. However, the case is still pending.

    According to Emanual Goldstein (aka Cereal Killer ;-) ), that the judge denied Ford an injunction on 2600's use of the domain is a good thing. They apparently don't want to be too heavy-handed.

    Oh, and if you're feeling generous, you can donate from their online store. So far (11:45PM EST 19/06/01), donations have taken care of 23% of the fees.




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  2. Just goes to show... by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 5

    that you've got to think ahead when you create a website for your company. You need to register:

    1) 'Your company's name'.com
    2) 'Your company's name'.org and .net
    3) 'Your company's name misspelled'.com/org/net
    4) 'Your company's name'sucks.com/org/net
    5) 'Your company's name permuted'.com/org/net
    6) 'Your company's name backwards'.com/org/net
    7) 'Your company CEO's name'.com/org/net
    8) 'Your company CEO's name'sucks.com/org/net

    And so on and so on...

    It's a wonder anyone wants to get online these days.

    Dancin Santa

  3. Bad publicity is better than.... by r_j_prahad · · Score: 5
    We put out a lot of RFPs on a regular basis, and when we get letters of intent from vendors I go through a number of steps to satisfy my employer's requirements for "due diligence".

    Eventually I go look at their website for the positive stuff, then I tag on the word "sucks" to their URL to see if there's an opposing viewoint. But a funny thing has happened in the year that I've been doing this... when I first started, I treated finding a "vendorsucks" website as a deficit. But lately, if I don't find a "vendorsucks" site for a bidder, I wonder if they're a serious contendor in the marketplace.

    In other words, if they're not big enough to have pissed somebody off, somewhere, do I want to deal with them?

    The old adage about bad publicity being better than no publicity seems to make sense.