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bodacious-tatas to ARMani.com - The Namespace Madness

Submitted by Karthik on 21 March, 2004 - 22:09

The NY Times [free registration required] has a very well written article on the current state of the domain namespace, with a nice take on cyber-squatters and trademark infringment.

"But what about Anand Ramnath Mani, a graphic artist in Vancouver, who generally abbreviates his names? He registered ARMANI.COM, bumping into a trademark owned in many countries by Giorgio Armani and his representatives, who then spent years trying to get it away from him. They finally brought WIPO proceedings, pleading that ''every day, all over the world, people which are looking for the site of the famous stylist, finds, with surprise, the site of Mr. Anand Mani in Vancouver'' -- though, in fact, Mani never bothered to put up a Web site. The panel not only rejected the complaint but also rebuked the company for a bad-faith abuse of the process."

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