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abc.net.au vs abc.net

chris

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Noticed this one regarding abc.net on Domain Name Wire:

Australian Broadcasting Corporation loses attempt to get ABC.net

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australia’s national broadcaster, has lost a cybersquatting complaint it brought against the domain name ABC.net.

The broadcaster failed to convince a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist that the domain name was registered in bad faith. After all, it’s a very common term.

The domain owner registered it in 1995 while working at an ISP, and later put the domain name to use.

The mention of email is relevant..

ABC didn’t seem to mind much about the domain until the domain owner contacted it in 2017 advising that he was receiving misdirected emails.

This is the second UDRP decision in as many days in which misdirected email was discussed. In both cases, the owner of a ccTLD was losing email to another domain. ABC’s website is ABC.net.au. In a recent case for Farrer.com, the Complainant used farrer.co.uk and was losing email to the .com.

You can read more here: https://domainnamewire.com/2019/07/...ing-corporation-loses-attempt-to-get-abc-net/
 

Data Glasses

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Considering there is a ABC broadcaster in America I don't think the Australian ABC needed the .net anyways. In this instance the au at the end serves a purpose ..... Aussie.
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People have been ringing wrong numbers ever since the phone was invented ..... planet is still spinning
 

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