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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
Domain names are finite resource and should be distributed basing on merit. A large company can produce more social benefits from a domain name than a small one.
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"Merit"
determined by whom?
I had to deal with something similar to this--B&N put on its cranky pants, due to my business name. (So too did Apple; for a while, they refused to publish anything in iBooks, because my company name has "nook" as letters in the title. Jackassery of the first water.)
So, if B&N decides, now, years later, to revive their devices, etc., I should have to give up my company name? My established business identity, because they'll produce "more social benefits" by doing...
what, exactly? I had my biz, before their first device. Would I have named my business that, if I'd known then that they would call their devices Nooks? Not on your life. I must answer IDK how many wrong numbers per year, for people that think we're a B&N store or god-knows-what.
One of the biggest causes of strife in this world is that people can't agree on what constitues "merit" or "social benefits." I'll be goddamned before I'll let some Johnny-come-lately of any size just TAKE my business name away from me. I've worked very bloody hard to build this little biz, over more than a decade, and B&N or any other company has no goddamned "right" to take it from me--even
if they're the equivalent of Little Sisters of the Poor. (Which they obviously are not.)
That's social INjustice and it most certainly
isn't meritorious.
Hitch