IP: good DNS example in Boston Globe today

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:17:23 -0500
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
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> Apparently unsatisfied with its control of HealthNet.com and 
> HealthNet.net, a California HMO (which uses the trademark HealthNet in the 
> narrow domain of California healthcare practice) has decided to go after 
> HealthNet.org, a domain name used for years by a Massachusetts non-profit, 
> SatelLife, that operates a satellite communications network for healthcare 
> professionals around the world.
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> According to SatelLife's website, it has held the domain name 
> HealthNet.org since 1993, and it has been using the name since then as 
> well.  Whereas HealthNet.com was first used by the HMO in 1996.
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> SatelLife is fighting back.  What's sad is that their only option (given 
> the cowardly wimps at NSI and their domain name instability rule) is to 
> launch a high-profile and potentially expensive lawsuit to pre-empt 
> HealthNet from invoking NSI's standard "revoke if anyone rattles a 
> trademark" policy, which has no due process in it.
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> The Boston Globe story is at:
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> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/330/metro/Group_fight_for_Internet_name+. 
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> - David
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