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What Hubris?
Authored by: Wol on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 04:56 PM EST
Read the Guardian article referenced from here. Look at the whois data that
someone posted. It's all here in comments on this article.

These people have owned, in some sense, the Python name for 16 years.

Yes they don't appear to have been using it, but you don't want the law to say
that I can walk off with your property just for that! You don't want me driving
off in your car claiming it's now mine just because it's sat unused on your
drive for the last year or two!

To put it in Wild West terms, what happens if A discovers gold, then it turns
out B registered a claim to that very stake ten years ago?

And no, I'm not on the side of the python.co.uk people. It's just that it's not
as clear cut and simple as posters here seem to think.

Yup - I think they are gold-digging. And I think the fact they seem to be using
Python could well be their downfall. But I see no evidence that when they
registered python.co.uk, they were gold-digging or acting in bad faith back
then.

And it's no crime in UK law to realise you actually own a hot property and want
to make use of it. Going back to "why don't Python.org try to get Nominet
to hand over the .co.uk domain?" - I think a UK court would tear Nominet to
shreds if they did so on current evidence - it's just not worth Python.org even
trying!

Python.org need evidence of bad faith BACK IN *1*9*9*7*! At present, I don't
think they've got it! Evidence of bad faith today isn't good enough.

As I said, once Python.org win the trademark dispute, which should be a
pushover, THEN they stand a decent chance of getting their hands on the UK
domain - but even then - maybe not seeing as it's a .*co*.uk. .org.uk is the
correct domain for them.

Cheers,
Wol

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