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unix.com Wins Domain Dispute

Posted by Hemos on from the fighting-the-good dept.

kyler writes "Apparently unix.com was able to afford the lawyers to fight off X/open from stealing their domain name in the wipo domain dispute. If the domain unix.com doesn't violate the UNIX trademark, what gives them the right to take unix.net away from me and unix.org away from Michael? This is ludacris" We had the story about unix.org losing their battle so this is a Good Thing.

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  1. Re:They have this backwards by aug24 · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you read it properly, you'll note that the respondant company did not register the name in 2000.

    The company bought the domain name in 2000 from the previous owner company. The actual human owner (of both companies and hence the domain) since 1993 has been Mr Tim Bass, who has continuously run a free speech Unix discussion site there.

    Plenty of evidence that this is not a squat.

    Justin.

    --
    You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
  2. Message from Admin of Unix.com by ende · · Score: 5, Informative

    From Neo (Admin of Unix.com) on their forums:

    A few facts:

    * We registered the UNIX.COM domain in 1993 in good faith.

    * We only registered UNIX.COM (UNIX.NET and UNIX.ORG were registered by others)

    * We have spent well over $25,000.00 on UNIX related legal fees.

    * We have spent many more thousands of dollars to maintain this site so that all people can freely discuss UNIX related issues without commericals.

    * We have spent a lot of $$$ to promote free speech regarding UNIX and UNIX like operating systems.

    * UNIX is a generic term regardless of X/Open's claim.

    * X/Open's false claim hurts the world UNIX community because it creates a negative environment and fragments the community with harsh actions that are, in reality, anti-open.

    * We do this because we love the UNIX philosophy and the true UNIX community.

    This is my gift to you, each and everyone of you.

    From the bottom of my heart. - Neo