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Originally posted by purse junkie
I understand Microsoft's self-protection from a legal perspective, but their in-house counsel and the management jerk who authorized and made a $10 settlement offer ought to be bitch-slapped. Or at the very least, they ought to have the decency to blush.
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there was a good deal of this sort of domain name "reserving" that went on early. There are now statutes against it. no thinking company would offer much; they'd be in for a flood of follow up nuisance payments.
The kid admits he took the name to sound like Microsoft, so don't feel bad for him. I suppose, since search engines don't search by sound alike, this is benign, but still. If you screw with Microsoft, you should expect a 25 page letter from some lawfirm.
Plus, they hired my favorite firm name, Smart & Baggar.
