Background on the Bill Purdy case: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=purdy --- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 02:30:28 -0600 From: jamie rishaw <jamieat_private> To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> Cc: politechat_private, farberat_private Subject: Bill Purdy owns one in three of ALL washingtonpost domain names Declan, I've thought up till now that Bill had a noble cause, but this last message made me think. So I did a little digging. Bill Purdy has not registered 1, 2, or even 10 domain names. I walked the DNS tree (I have access to the raw tld zones). There are 154 domain names that reference "washingtonpost". Out of these 154 domain names, a staggering 52 (over 1/3rd) appear to be registered to Bill. In addition to this being an incredible waste of money, I see it really as tort. While I don't condone whois slamming, here is the list of domain names that he appears to have registered. Note that some 20% of them (10/52) were registered in 2003 alone. Speech freedom is paramount, but isn't this a little too far? I don't understand how "TheWashingtonPostShareholder.com" or "TheWashingtonPostNews.com" constitutes anything short of blatant, tortious trademark violation. jamie 27-jan-2003 IHATETHEWASHINGTONPOST.COM 27-jan-2003 ILOVETHEWASHINGTONPOST.COM 27-jan-2003 JESUSLOVESTHEWASHINGTONPOST.COM 27-jan-2003 SATANLOVESTHEWASHINGTONPOST.COM 12-jan-2003 THEWASHINGTONPOST-MOTHEROFJESUS.COM 08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOST-MYBOOK.COM 27-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOST-NOSPINZONE.COM 16-jan-2003 THEWASHINGTONPOST30YEARABORTIONSLAUGHTER.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTBABY.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTBIRTH.COM 08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTCHRISTIAN.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTCONFESSION.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTEFFECT.COM 27-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTFACTOR.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTFAME.COM 08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTFETUS.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTFRAME.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTILLNESS.COM 12-jan-2003 THEWASHINGTONPOSTJESUS.COM 08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTJEW.COM 08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTKORAN.COM 08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTLIBERAL.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTLIFE.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTMISSION.COM 08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTMUSLIM.COM 18-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTNEWS.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTOCCASSION.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTREIGN.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTRELIGION.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTRESCUE.COM 12-jan-2003 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSATAN.COM 24-dec-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSHAREHOLDER.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSORROWS.COM 27-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSPIN.COM 08-oct-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSUCKS.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTSYNDROME.COM 08-sep-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTUNBORNCHILD.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTUNDERSTANDING.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTWALK.COM 25-aug-2002 THEWASHINGTONPOSTWOMB.COM 08-sep-2002 WASHINGTONPOST-BILLPURDY.COM 26-jan-2003 WASHINGTONPOST-IAMMADASHELLANDIAMNOTGOINGTOTAKEITANYMORE.COM 11-sep-2002 WASHINGTONPOST-NEWYORKTIMES.COM 27-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOST-OREILLY.COM 25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOST-PLANNEDPARENTHOOD.COM 25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTCANDIDATES.COM 25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTCONFUSION.COM 08-sep-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTHARDASS.COM 25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTHEALTH.COM 25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTSACRILEGE.COM 25-aug-2002 WASHINGTONPOSTSUFFERING.COM 26-jan-2003 WHYCANIHAVETHEWASHINGTONPOSTSATANBUTNOTTHEWASHINGTONPOSTJESUS.COM -- i.am-> jamie.(at).arpa.dot.com arpa.com :: the mainstream runs shallow ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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