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A domain is another form of goods or services which ownership can be challenged before <span>WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center's domain name dispute resolution services.</span> <span> ICANN and IANA should just stick to the technical aspect of it all.</span><br></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">However, <i>single letters are among the most popular trademarks registered in the United States. Each letter of the alphabet has, at a minimum, hundreds of trademarks. There are, for example, over 2,000 trademarks of the letter S, making it the most popular. There are 1,102 Vs, 1,100 Es, and 1,816 As. Pity the lonely Y, with only 229. ... 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Le vendredi 28 juillet 2023 à 15:26:29 UTC−5, Mike Arbrouet via At-Large <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> a écrit :
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<div><div id="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297"><div><div><div>Perception of luck can be subjective but success in business entrepreneurship requires intelligence, hard work, determination, resilience and innovative mindset. I tend to attribute Mr Musk's success in those categories.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Luck can take one so far. It's statically unfair to invoke luck when the guy has built/led/run/invested in companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, the Boring company, OpenAI, ...</div><div>Credit when credit is due.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297yqt00921" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297yqt2393645689"><div class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 3:03 PM Antony Van Couvering <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:avc@avc.vc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">avc@avc.vc</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_quote"><div>No doubt he has the right; we shall see if he has the ability. Perhaps he is a genius, or perhaps there is a decent statistical chance that someone from a privileged background can get lucky three times in a row, and blow it on the fourth. <br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 28, 2023, at 12:06 PM, Mike Arbrouet via At-Large <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none"><div><div>Sounds like someone is not a fan of Mr Musk. The way I see it: his money (of which he has plenty), his companies, and consequently his decisions.<div>And given his successful track record, I wouldn't bet against him. </div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 26, 2023, 7:03 PM Evan Leibovitch via At-Large <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#0b5394;" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_default">
<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_default">So
apparently a certain purveyor of rockets, tunnels and electric cars is
infatuated with the letter "X" to the point of destroying decades and
billions of dollars in accumulated brand value in renaming Twitter. Most
involved in tech are I'm sure aware of this already.<br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_default">Why am I posting this to ICANN mailing lists?</div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_default">To
call attention to the stupidity of confusing domains with brands,
something in which many domain sellers -- mainly speculative domain
re-sellers -- gleefully engage.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);" class="ydp8431a5d5yiv3370257297gmail_default">Apparently
Mr. Musk seems to believe that acquiring "<a shape="rect" href="http://X.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">X.com</a>" from Facebook -- along
with some cosmetic redesigns -- constitutes a rebranding. Let this
episode be a warning to others who would use a domain as a primary
branding tactic, forgetting that:<br clear="none"><ul><li>A <a shape="rect" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/25/tech/meta-microsoft-trademarks-new-twitter-name/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">great number of tech companies have trademarked uses of the letter X</a>
for web services, most notable among them the aforementioned Facebook.
So this is not an issue of Musk being able to bully smaller companies;<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></li><li>Then
there's Microsoft, which has some such trademarks of its own and
produces an obscure, little-known computing device known as an "XBox";<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></li><li>Most
people using Unix and Linux for their desktops have been using software
known as "X" for decades (though it is being phased out ... very
slowly). <br clear="none">...</li></ul><br></div></div>
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