I am getting pretty sick of people that own a trademark thinking they have the right to a word. I beleive Olympic, Olympiad and the likes have been around in several languages long enough to mean something other than the organization going after these domains. Personally, if I want to have a domain named 2004Olympicgames.com and want to post information to the public about the 2004 Olympic games I should have the right to. Why doesn't George Bush Jr. sue himself for slanderous Domain names.. (ie. www.georgebushsucks.com errata). This is sheer ignorance of how things should work. Should be first come first serve. To make things confusing I also feel that trademark names that are not part of any language should have a right to a.com with thier name (ex. microsoft.com). Domain names that are explicitly taken from corporations that have sole use of the word that was made up to name the corporation should have the right to use the Domain. Of course if M$ didn't jump on the ball and get the domain name first they'd have to deal with whomever got it. This is just another abuse of an organization that does not have a global thought process to see where someone else might have a use for the word olympic. I would place this lawsuit in the audaciously ignorant attitude and file it under "explain it to them later."
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I am getting pretty sick of people that own a trademark thinking they have the right to a word. I beleive Olympic, Olympiad and the likes have been around in several languages long enough to mean something other than the organization going after these domains. Personally, if I want to have a domain named 2004Olympicgames.com and want to post information to the public about the 2004 Olympic games I should have the right to. Why doesn't George Bush Jr. sue himself for slanderous Domain names .. (ie. www.georgebushsucks.com errata). This is sheer ignorance of how things should work. Should be first come first serve. To make things confusing I also feel that trademark names that are not part of any language should have a right to a .com with thier name (ex. microsoft.com). Domain names that are explicitly taken from corporations that have sole use of the word that was made up to name the corporation should have the right to use the Domain. Of course if M$ didn't jump on the ball and get the domain name first they'd have to deal with whomever got it. This is just another abuse of an organization that does not have a global thought process to see where someone else might have a use for the word olympic. I would place this lawsuit in the audaciously ignorant attitude and file it under "explain it to them later."