I am not sure about what notices auDA had sent, but I can say that this is a common issue in the doman name industry. There are often mutiple entities which could have a trademark relating to a domain name. I believe that trademarks can be registered in about 42 categories, thus two companies could have the same trademark but operate in different industries. When you register a domain name, the terms and conditions of registration usually have a statement such as the following: "The Licensee warrants that neither the registration of the Domain Name nor the manner in which the Domain Name is directly or indirectly used infringes the legal rights of a third party. " Then there is a dispute reslution mechanism that can be used instead of the courts for a person or company to claim that the registrant of a particular name is using it in bad faith. These dispute resolution mechanisms (called UDRP for gtlds, or auDRP for ".au" domains) are intended to reduce the cost for a third party to have a domain name revoked from a company that is using it in bad faith. Regards, Bruce TonkinReceived on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 00:00:00 UTC
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