The Miami Marlins forgot one thing when they renamed the team

EagleSmack

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Hey did they ever pass that law stopping people from doing that? Like the guy that registered all the major airlines names right before everyone got webpages?

We had a couple HS kids send our company President a letter with saying they registered a similar sounding webpage name (to our company) and said we can buy it from them or it will be sold to a porn company.

We called their parents on them. lol

The next letter was a letter of apology from them.
 

B00Mer

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Hey did they ever pass that law stopping people from doing that? Like the guy that registered all the major airlines names right before everyone got webpages?

Cyber Squatting is still allowed.. but if you get the trademark, you can legally fight the person for the domain name and get it.

Most companies just pay or buy the domain.. $10,000 vs lawyers and BS
 

The Old Medic

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If you have ever seen Dolphins attack a shark that is menacing young Dolphins, you would have no qualms about naming a team after that Mammal. They attack sharks by hitting them on the gills, at high speed, and the shark either leaves fast, or it dies.
 

TenPenny

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Hey did they ever pass that law stopping people from doing that? Like the guy that registered all the major airlines names right before everyone got webpages?

We had a couple HS kids send our company President a letter with saying they registered a similar sounding webpage name (to our company) and said we can buy it from them or it will be sold to a porn company.

We called their parents on them. lol

The next letter was a letter of apology from them.

Why would you call their parents for making a sales pitch? What do you do when girl scouts sell cookies - report them to the police?