Doug Isenberg: confusing domain speculators and investors with cybersquatters?
Posted in domain names, Internet governance on June 21st, 2006What a well deserved outcry Doug Isenberg’s commentary on CNet elicited from domain speculators. Mr. Isenberg is a lawyer with GigaLaw.com, and more importantly a WIPO UDRP panelist. This means that he is sometimes the person arbitrating domain name disputes.
One problem with his opinion piece is that he equates domainers with cybersquatters. Even if all cybersquatters consider themselves to be domainers, it is certainly NOT fair to brand all legitimate domain name investors as somehow squatting on trademarked names. No one condones the registration of trademarks and service marks. Domainers have known for a long time that this is a poor investment strategy; they are businessmen first and foremost.
