Domainer’s Gazette, once again, going out on a limb and covering breaking news..
NPR’s The World program covered a piece yesterday regarding the domain name ‘Narnia.mobi’ and how the current Scottish owners registered it for “email” purposes, and feel the big ole nasty trademark holding CS Lewis estate are mean spirited asking for her to relinquish the name.
um, yeah. It’s their trademark. And you registered a trademarked name.. simple enough. Time to give it back..
It’s funny, though.. listen to the piece… in several ways, NPR spins a sympathetic tone towards the offender (the domain owner), versus the good guys (the CS Lewis estate)
eh, whatever, decide for yourself.. who’s the bad guy here?
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OK, you gotta love their naivete. Hooray for them for shedding more light on the possible uses for domains! So many domain holders forget about the power of e-mail. Think of all the kids who might pay $1.99 to have a Joey@Narnia.com or .mobi e-mail address! Same with millions of other amazing domains!
Unfortunately, Narnia is not a generic word or phrase. It is a legitimate trademark and this sweet Scottish family is infringinging. However, if all they want is for their son to have a Narnia e-mail account, I am sure CS Lewis can work out an arrangement for the kid ( and maybe 1 million more!). A few opening night tickets might sweeten the deal as well. I wonder if they had tried the soft approach first if it might have worked. Kids don’t like to be on the dark side of something they are trying to emulate.