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11 Oct 2024 17:47:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: domain names for large companies  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 15 Sep 2007 14:56:12
Message: <46ec2acc$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson a écrit :
> 
> At the same time, consider the case of one Mike Rowe (not the guy from 
> Dirty Jobs) - he went into software development, and set up a website at 
> mikerowesoft.com - Microsoft successfully shut that site down because the 
> name would be confusing and they worked in the same market.

The reason they were succesful in shutting him down was that at one 
point he said "I'll shut it down for $10000".  From that point on, it 
became a cybersquatting case.  They eventually settled out of court.

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