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Battlebots Battles It Out: TV Show Versus IRC

Posted by timothy on from the battle-of-wits dept.

Ender, Duke_of_URL writes: "Battlebots the TV show, has joined the ranks of Corporate bad-guys buy attempting to force out Battlebots.org, an IRC site that had registered their domain before Battlebots even filed for a trademark. As most of you know, in any dispute over domains it's the money that wins."

2 of 206 comments (clear)

  1. why pay? by nmarshall · · Score: 1, Redundant

    why give them a dollar a year?
    also haven't we seen this FOO.com vs FOO.org?
    why does everyone think that they must own all domain in relation to FOO?

    me, i would let them sue. Battlebots.org, was there before Battlebots.com . That is really all that matters.

    --
    nmarshall

    The law is that which it boldly asserted and plausibly maintained..
    --Colonel Burr 1783
  2. This is utter crap. Check the dates. by CJayC · · Score: 2, Redundant

    The owners of BattleBots (the event/Comedy Central show) have been in existence long before the battlebots.org domain. BattleBots was on the air on Comedy Central before the .org domain was regged, folks, so I don't think there's any doubt that this is a case of cybersquatting, and a case of patently false information in the story that should be corrected by /..

    From the USPTO Database:

    Word Mark BATTLEBOTS
    Goods and Services IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: entertainment in nature of competitive events featuring robots.
    Filing Date April 12, 1999


    From NSI:

    Domain Name: battlebots.org
    Record created: 2000-08-28 06:52:41