Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid

Readings for March 20th, 2008

Published on 2008-03-20 22:37:17 0 Comment Edit
URL: http://www.ricksblog.com/my_weblog/2008/03/my-last-blog-po.h...

A year ago I decided to write a book. 75 posts later, that book is done. It resides right here. 75 posts (Chapters) most of which are aimed at the corporate and investment world along with the domain industry as well as other trailblazers. Free for the reading. I hope someday it is read by folks on Main Street to Wall Street who can TRANSFORM their businesses if they can figure out just how EASY it is to harness the power of the Internet. The posts are aimed at folks at every level. As I have said for many years, there are countless ways to climb this mountain, this was my path and this is my vision based on my path. A 20 year plan. A plan based on timing. That success or failure has a lot to do with timing. Sometimes timing is everything. So with that in mind, it is TIME to do other things. Whatever I can say has been said. It is here. It is on eRealEstate.com and it is on TargetedTraffic.com. Now the time that I have always shared has to be devoted to other challenges and other projects. The first of which opens today at Property.com. Others will soon follow. Time to allocate my time in a new way.

Source: Rick's Blog

Register.com Claim For Register.CC Denied

Published on 2008-03-20 09:08:02 0 Comment Edit
URL: http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/1126697.htm

Rights or Legitimate Interests

Whilst the Complainant gave the Respondent no rights in respect of the disputed domain name, the Respondent has satisfied the onus under Paragraph 4(c)(i) of the Policy. It is clear from the evidence that it has been, since 1997, conducting a business of registering domain names and, in particular, registering domain names for the country code ".cc."? At the date when the Respondent commenced this business in 1996, the Complainant was not legally in existence and there was no documentary evidence of the Complainant having acquired the business of FIC.

In late 1997, the Respondent cultivated a connection with the administrator of the ".cc"? country code, apparently seeing value in selling domains with this suffix. The Respondent registered a number of generic names with the ".cc"? suffix which it believed would turn out to be of value. The disputed domain name was one of these. The Respondent had rights in the disputed domain name when it registered it in 1997, before the Complainant had established rights in the mark. See Warm Things Inc. v. Weiss, D2002-0085 (WIPO Apr. 18, 2002).

"Register"?, being a common word used in connection with domain hosting services, the Panel finds that the Respondent is using the disputed domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of services and that it was doing so before it had notice of the dispute.