France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994

Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by arkades on Sunday April 29, 2018 @12:40PM (#16952718)

Registered and used it with, apparently, the blessing of the French government for a couple of decades - they were aware of its existence, and worked with him in providing some content, as I understood the article.

It's ... nothing at all like cybersquatting. At all.

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by josefx on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:47AM (#16957168)

He had the blessing until he went for the trademark in Europe. In 2015 France.com didn't exist as trademark, then was registered by France.com Inc and at that point France declared prior use on the word France and related trademarks.

They let him use it until he tried to claim it for himself.

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by fasj82 on Sunday April 29, 2018 @12:47PM (#16952741)

I'm not saying this is a squatter.

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