Originally Posted by fluffygrrl

Here's the deal with big corporations tho. First, a true story friend just shared :

Back when DEC was hot shit (first corporation connected to the Internets, 85 it was, or 84), and their Altavista engine had a bigger market share than google has today, they didn't bother registering altavista as a domain, and somebody else did, hoping to sell it to DEC and make bank.

DEC went to court and got a court order prohibiting the intreprid fellows from ever running a search engine off that domain.

Five schmucks in ill-fitting suits don't get to fleece big corporations. That's the rule of the game, the better suit does the fleecing. So, if them "big corporations" ever want the domainer's domains, they'll just pass a law saying so. It's happened a while back, about actual corporate domains and trademarks. That would have been 90% of the value.

If they'll want more words, they'll just give them to themselves.