Re: Cybersquatting: Class War Domain Dispute? Etoy vs. Etoys

["Me Uh, K." <pram512@yahoo.com>]

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arguably, this could be a pretty cut-and-dry case. 
Etoy has had the domain for several years longer than
etoys, and etoys offered to buy it for a fair sum (as
far as websites go), when that failed, they go into
big-bully corporation mode and try to take it.

I wonder if etoy could sue etoys for trying to hijack
HIS traffic?  he was, after all, there first.

It's too bad that we give such consideration to big
buisness

-mia k.

--- worker-hacktivism@tao.ca wrote:
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> http://www.hijack.org
> http://www.etoy.com
> http://www.etoys.com
> 
> If etoy loses its case, internic will cut off the
> domain www.etoy.com.
> Thatīs what the online toy store etoys.com demands,
> after etoy rejected an offer of $100k for
> the transfer of the etoy.com domain name.> 
> 
> etoy, the art group uses the domain etoy.com since
> 1994.
> eToys.com, the online toy reseller, started in 1997.
> 
> The case raises iffy legal questions and is likely
> to spawn some interesting net-activism.
> 
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> http://bbs.thing.net
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