Of course no-one's forced to, I'm just making the point that I  find it
surprising that a US company that went to the not inconsiderable trouble
to register their trademark 30 years ago hasn't bothered to spend 5 minutes
and $100 or so to register a pretty obvious version of that trademark in
the .com.au domain space.


>-- Original Message --
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:29:16 -0700 (PDT)
>From: David Goldstein <goldstein_david&#167;yahoo.com.au>
>To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <dns&#167;dotau.org>
>Subject: Re: [DNS] Domain monetising?
>Reply-To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <dns&#167;dotau.org>
>
>
>I can see why someone *should* register domains to protect their trademark,
>but in reality why should they if they don't want to. If one looks at the
>offline world, it's not expected a company should register various permutation
>of their company name or brands to protect a brand or company, so why should
>they be forced to with domain names?
>
>David
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Jon Lawrence <jon&#167;jonlawrence.com>
>To: .au DNS Discussion List <dns&#167;dotau.org>; .au DNS Discussion List <dns§dotau.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, 18 October, 2006 5:23:41 PM
>Subject: Re: [DNS] Domain monetising?
>
>Hi Ron
>
>Given that there are two Australian Trademarks for "Seven Eleven" registered
>to 7-Eleven, Inc. from Dallas, Texas, dating from 1976, perhaps a better
>question to ask would be, why didn't they register this name themselves?
>
>Jon 
>
>
>>-- Original Message --
>>From: "Ron Stark" <ronstark&#167;snapsite.com.au>
>>To: "'.au DNS Discussion List'" <dns&#167;dotau.org>
>>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:30:05 +1000
>>Subject: [DNS] Domain monetising?
>>Reply-To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <dns&#167;dotau.org>
>>
>>
>>Can anybody tell me what claim does Mr Ying Fat Ng, operating as a sole
>>trader, have over the domain name seveneleven.com.au?  Especially when
>he
>>purportedly offers 7-Eleven stores for sale, but appears to have no
>>connection whatsoever with them?
>> 
>>There's potentially a similar situation, albeit under a different entity,
>>with 711.com.au.
>> 
>>Ron Stark
>> 
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