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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
We had this discussion a few weeks ago, as companies like Hustler and Manwin ride the hype. Besides, you can't nail them for extortion because the companies still have the option of using the sunrise period or simply NOT do anything.
As mentioned, ICM has been around for 10 years and the current tab is $25 million, spent. They ain't going to fold or just drop that kind of loss because the reward is just too great.
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That's nice, but the one factor you keep ignoring is that a company like Hustler is going to either sue ICM for extortion regardless of the "sunrise period" or if some idiot decides to buy Hustler.XXX, Flynt Publications will simply sue the shit out of them for trademark infringement and the purchaser will have to fork over the domain name.
So either way ICM is up against a wall. Do you really think anyone in their right mind is going to do anything with hustler.xxx other than hustler?
So the end game will be that ICM loses big time on a shit load of trademarked domain names which will never be bought and/or used.