There must be somone at InterNIC who thinks like you do.
You miss the point entirely. Trademark space is not flat -- it has to be
trademarkable (not an generic term), it must be associated with a specific
industry, and it must be associated with a particular region (the
juridictal boundaries of the particular PTO).
For a trademark violation, you must show that it is being used in the same
industry in the same region, for damages you must prove that it was
intentionally done to misrepresent your organization, and you must prove
they profitted and/or you incurred a loss due to the misrepresentation.
All the terms you list below, with the possible exception of FCC, are not
even trademarkable. The idea that a US government organization could own
the english word "house" is absolutely ludicrous.
Associating your domain closely to that of another to gain misdirected
traffic is unethical, but has nothing to do with trademark.
Matt
I think there's one very clear fact which shows that "nasa.com" was
intended to be used for those mistyping the URL. Remember that
"www.jpl.nasa.gov" was the URL given out everywhere for the Mars missions.
taz [1] nslookup
Default Server: localhost.hyperreal.com
Address: 127.0.0.1
server 209.4.122.20
Default Server: ns1.host.net
Address: 209.4.122.20
www.jpl.nasa.com
Server: ns1.host.net
Address: 209.4.122.20
Name: www.jpl.nasa.com
Address: 209.4.122.102
This also works for "mdpwww.jpl.nasa.com".
Brian
I think there's one very clear fact which shows that "nasa.com" was
intended to be used for those mistyping the URL. Remember that
"www.jpl.nasa.gov" was the URL given out everywhere for the Mars missions.
taz [1] nslookup
Default Server: localhost.hyperreal.com
Address: 127.0.0.1
> server 209.4.122.20
Default Server: ns1.host.net
Address: 209.4.122.20
> www.jpl.nasa.com
Server: ns1.host.net
Address: 209.4.122.20
Name: www.jpl.nasa.com
Address: 209.4.122.102
It's a wildcard A record.
ls -d nasa.com
[ns1.host.net]
nasa.com. SOA ns1.host.net root.host.net.
(1116285411 2147483647 2147483647 2147483647 2147483647)
nasa.com. NS ns1.host.net
nasa.com. NS ns2.host.net
nasa.com. MX 5 user.host.net
nasa.com.. A 209.4.122.102
www A 209.4.122.102
irc CNAME irc.dal.net
ns1 A 209.4.122.20
ns A 209.4.122.20
* MX 5 user.host.net
* A 209.4.122.102
ns2 A 209.4.122.30
nasa.com. SOA ns1.host.net root.host.net.
(1116285411 2147483647 2147483647 2147483647 2147483647)
this.is.really.dumb.nasa.com
Server: ns1.host.net
Address: 209.4.122.20
this.is.really.dumb.nasa.com preference = 5, mail exchanger =
user.host.net
this.is.really.dumb.nasa.com internet address = 209.4.122.102
nasa.com nameserver = ns1.host.net
nasa.com nameserver = ns2.host.net
user.host.net internet address = 209.4.122.10
ns1.host.net internet address = 209.4.122.20
ns2.host.net internet address = 209.4.122.30