Re: Cybersquatting: Class War Domain Dispute? malloryhotel.com/org

[Michael Clark <mclark@cdt.org>]

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One thing that you or the union should do is to get the 
malloryhotel.net domain as well. NSI says it is currently available. 
If the malloryhotel.com people were serious about wanting to protect 
their trademark they would have already taken that additional domain.

Another thing to do would be to get another set of domains (something 
like malloryhotelstrike.com) and set up either a satiric site of the 
original .com site or recreate your current site with all of your own 
work. Take a photo of the hotel and replace the one they say you 
stole from them. Recreate all HTML code from scratch.

Just a couple of thoughts, and are only my opinions. IANAL. Michael

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>Instead of waxing on the theoretical problem of what the cybersquatting
>bill the House recently passed, how about we talk about an actual struggle
>involving domain names.
>
>The workers at Mallory Hotel have been unjustly fired for trying to
>organize a union.  They are fighting it.  As part of that fight, the union
>is supporting them... part of which is providing them with services like a
>website for them to publicize their struggle, malloryhotel.org.  The
>bosses, Malco, own malloryhotel.com and want to shut down the workers
>rights to use the malloryhotel.org domain name.
>
>This should be a fairly big deal since, ofcourse, we have no intention of
>ever selling Malco the malloryhotel.org domain.  Its a rather novel
>occurance, and a winnable free speech fight.


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