Huh… I remember the same situation with MS. There were 4 domains registered by one guy (including microsoft.pl & microsoft.com.pl). The company was not interested in having them for 3 years. Suddenly they woke up and asked the owner to give the domains back for 0 (put any currency here). NASK (provider) took over those 2 domains and changed their owner to MS Corp without any permission from this guy who bought them. That case itself was very very long…
Frob
The iphone case is a bit different, as the domain had been registered for a long time before Apple even thought of their product.
The NASK case sounds a bit crazy! Most of the cctld registries wouldn’t be able to do that without following a proper process
Thanks for your comment
Michele
Diesel says
Organization so large, but lacks common sense. Wish I had that domain. 😉
frob says
Huh… I remember the same situation with MS. There were 4 domains registered by one guy (including microsoft.pl & microsoft.com.pl). The company was not interested in having them for 3 years. Suddenly they woke up and asked the owner to give the domains back for 0 (put any currency here). NASK (provider) took over those 2 domains and changed their owner to MS Corp without any permission from this guy who bought them. That case itself was very very long…
michele says
Frob
The iphone case is a bit different, as the domain had been registered for a long time before Apple even thought of their product.
The NASK case sounds a bit crazy! Most of the cctld registries wouldn’t be able to do that without following a proper process
Thanks for your comment
Michele