09-24-2011, 08:53 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Global
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Originally Posted by EukerVoorn
Doesn't that still make you a victim of blackmailing? "register your domain before someone else does". Sunrise 3 is funny; if you have a mainstream trademark and don't want it to be used for porn, you can pay us and we make sure nobody will register it as an .xxx . Now if someone would register sony.xxx , Sony would sue that person. But sueing is more expensive than paying for sunrise 3 so a lot of companies are going through the sunrise 3 procedure probably, basically because they're getting blackmailed.
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Perhaps, but we are not fools and have substantial assets to protect.
The misnomer of "blackmailing" as you call it should be more properly called "legal extortion" in its most extreme connotation.
In the final analysis -- the cost of a defensive registration to us is trivial. However, we will never agree to some NGO (non governmental organization) dictating to us on our content or general business practices that are within the laws of the international venue in which we operate.
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