Re: DJB DNS trademark issue

John: I don't know that Dan has registered it yet. But he probably
should do so.

Emilio:  Google results may be a different by geographic location. I
rehecked, and 'dns cr.yp.to' still pulls up the sponsored link with
UltraDNS.  

I note that 'djbdns cr.yp.to', 'djb dns cr.yp.to' and 'dns djb cr.yp.to'
does not pull up the UltraDNS.com ad.  'dns goobble' also doesn't bring 
up the ad.  Looks like you need 'dns' and 'cr.yp.to'

		--Dean


On 21 May 2009, John Levine wrote:

> >I noticed that when one puts 'dns cr.yp.to' into Google, Ultradns.com
> >shows up /before/ cr.yp.to/djbdns.html, as a paid link.  I had heard
> >that Google was doing this, and that people were getting upset with
> >trademark infringement and market confusion.
> 
> Could you remind us where Dan claims DJB DNS as a trademark?
>
> A search of the USPTO database finds the only DJB is an unrelated
> mark on ball bearings.



On Thu, 21 May 2009, Emilio Perea wrote:

> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:06:30AM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> > I noticed that when one puts 'dns cr.yp.to' into Google, Ultradns.com
> > shows up /before/ cr.yp.to/djbdns.html, as a paid link.  I had heard
> > that Google was doing this, and that people were getting upset with
> > trademark infringement and market confusion.
> 
> All Google paid links show up before their normal search results, but as
> a matter of fact, right now 'dns cr.yp.to' does not show any paid links,
> and the first link is to http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html.
> 
> 

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