[wg-c] Setting a bad example

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com>]

For what it's worth, the same companies that complain about TM
infringement and cybersquatting are guilty of encouraging the behavior.
It only takes a small handful of these types of incidents (indeed,
I believe only a small handful exist) to convince every quick-buck
artist out there that there's millions to be made in the namespace:


  LOS ANGELES (AP) - What's in a name? At least $260,000 so far, and
  maybe more than $1 million if the name is Drugs.com. Eric MacIver, a
  21-year-old Internet entrepreneur in Mesa, Ariz., stands to reap the
  windfall from drug companies' bidding for rights to the Internet
  domain name to which he owns the exclusive rights. Intense bidding
  under way for the name highlights the competition among companies
  seeking the right name to lure customers in the increasingly crowded
  world of electronic commerce. By Wednesday afternoon the highest
  confirmed bid was $260,000, but several large drug companies and
  well-heeled speculators have expressed an interest in bidding before
  the auction closes Friday evening. 

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