On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:33:40 +0200, scott wrote:

> Say for instance I bought www.nokia.com long before Nokia realised they
> needed a website.  Do they have any right to force me to give-up that
> domain name, just because they are a huge multi-national company, or is
> it just tough luck and they have to pay me whatever it will take?
> 
> Would it make any difference if I ran a small company called 'Nokia
> Gizmos' or something that nobody had every heard of?  Do they have more
> right to it than be just because they are a bigger well-known
> multi-national company?

Depends on whether you have a basis for choosing the name other than 
cyber-squatting.

Jim

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