Summary:

1. Sure, you can sue ICM because some jerk registered a name with your mark. You can sue anyone for almost any reason!
2. You will lose.

What the ICM registry is saying is more like: "Look, pay us money or well rent out vehicles that look just like your armored trucks".

50 anti-.xxx posts

:1orglaugh Idiotic.

someone buy this domain for a hoot...

http://www.icmregistry.xxx/

Liability for infringement, no, but making a business model out of trademark "protection"?

Imagine soon, when anyone can register extensions for a big one time fee and smaller yearly fees. Then they can all open up for domain registrations and meanwhile run the same pay-up business model.

Trademarks are already protected and it shouldn't be (is it?) legal for others to make further business out of that (except for laywers, lol). It should be blocked across ALL existing and upcoming extensions. For free.

Thank you for clicking! Your click gave the value of
.6 bowls of food for rescued animals.

This can't be true dude.

Ohhh .6. So it's like 2 pieces of dog food.

Last thing I remember trademark law and copyright law are the law.. Regardless of anything else. If you send them a DMCA or a C&D for having someone register your trade mark.. Since they ultimately control it.. just like a web hosting company in a DMCA complaint they will be held liable for compyright infringement.

Registrars are not above the law, they operate below it.. And theres no law that excludes them.

After ICANN opened up the field, is it as big an issue, what happens when .porn comes out?

Probably everyone will keep using .com's

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

cant wait to see the lawsuits pile up over this

.6 of a bowl, so think of a half filled dog food bowl:thumbsup

They been doing this for years and I recommend if anyone is looking to buy pet products or gifts check out the animal rescue site.