Apple again -iPhone-compatible porn sites targeted by Apple in domain name dispute

[ignhelper]

[release]
[B]Apple has taken aim at a number of dot-com domain names featuring the word iPhone that sell pornography, including the website iphone4s.com.[/B]

A total of seven domains featuring hardcore pornography have been targeted by Apple in a new complaint filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization. As [URL="http://domainnamewire.com/2011/11/03/apple-fights-for-iphone-porn-domain-names-including-iphone4s-com/"]noted by[/URL] [I]Domain Name Wire[/I], all of the sites feature the word iPhone, but perhaps the most troubling is the iphone4s.com website, which features the same name as Apple's latest handset.

The owners of the respective sites are unknown, as the domain names are protected by a privacy service shielding their "Whois" information. The Whois protocol stores the contact information for domain names on the Internet.

The iphone4s.com was originally registered in August of 2008, more than three years before Apple unveiled its iPhone 4S. The domain name for Apple's previous iPhone model, iphone4.com, is owned by Apple, while iphone3gs.com and iphone3g.com forward to non-Apple sites.

Other domains targeted by Apple include names like "iphonecamforce," "iphonecam4s," and "porn4iphones."

The World Intellectual Property Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations. WIPO, along with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, have developed rules for resolving domain name ownership disputes. That process is known as the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy, and it applies to top-level domains including .com, .net, and .org.

Apple has turned to WIPO before for domain name disputes. This July, the organization ordered that the domain name ipods.com [/release]

[URL]http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/11/03/iphone_compatible_porn_sites_targeted_by_apple_in_domain_name_dispute.html[/URL]

Why must Apple do this kind of shit.

[Zet]

I think I better check out these sites... for research.

[Fatal-Error]

Android is the superior porn consumption platform. We have flash player for even [b]more[/b] porn!

and google couldn't give two shits about what their OS is used for!

[AceOfDivine]

[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;33132470]Android is the superior porn consumption platform. We have flash player for even [b]more[/b] porn!

and google.couldn't give two shits about what their OS is used for![/QUOTE]
Google would only be happy if it was used for porn, I mean people use google for it so why not.

[Zard]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;33132436]Why must Apple do this kind of shit.[/QUOTE]

Stopping their name and products being associated with porn? I don't think any company that is non-porn would want that.. at all

[Parakon]

[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;33132470]

and [B]google.couldn't[/B] give two shits about what their OS is used for![/QUOTE]

I think your brain went into auto-fill there

[Fatal-Error]

It's the keyboard on my phone, "." and space are a little too close to eachother :v:
Atleast I can swap it out with little effort.

[Miskav]

[QUOTE=Zard;33132897]Stopping their name and products being associated with porn? I don't think any company that is non-porn would want that.. at all[/QUOTE]

You act like porn is bad or socially unacceptable.
This isn't the 1960's.

[Cheltastic]

[QUOTE=Miskav;33133038]You act like porn is bad or socially unacceptable.
This isn't the 1960's.[/QUOTE]

It's funny because after the Berlin wall fell, sudden influx of porn on TV from one part of Germany to the other.

[Zard]

[QUOTE=Miskav;33133038]You act like porn is bad or socially unacceptable.
This isn't the 1960's.[/QUOTE]

But why would a company want anything to do with it still?

[Aerkhan]

[QUOTE=Maximo13;33133060]It's funny because after the Berlin wall fell, sudden influx of porn on TV from one part of Germany to the other.[/QUOTE]

[i]>HEINZ! THE WALL FELL!
<BLEZZ ZE LORD! WHAT DO WE DO?!
>WATCH.
WEST GERMAN
PORN
<...
<GENIUS![/i]

[Heatvision...]

Lmao at psychic porn sites

[S31-Syntax]

New marketing strategy.

1) Purchase domains for potential product names with the letter i in front of them.
2) Wait for Apple to make product with that name.
3) Sell domain to Apple for stupidly high price.
4) Loadsofemone

[Contag]

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;33133603]New marketing strategy.

1) Purchase domains for potential product names with the letter i in front of them.
2) Wait for Apple to make product with that name.
3) Sell domain to Apple for stupidly high price.
4) Loadsofemone[/QUOTE]

Actual result:
1) Get sued
2) Unable to pay for good enough lawyer
3) Lose and forced to pay legal costs for Apple
4) Flee to Iran

[Robber]

It's kind of understandable that they want iphone4s.com

[Political Gamer]

[QUOTE=Robber;33133957]It's kind of understandable that they want iphone4s.com[/QUOTE]It makes perfect sense why they want all those domains in the first place. No its not because apple hates porn its because apple does not want their products to be associated with porn. No company outside the "adult industry" wants their products or brand name associated with porn.

[S31-Syntax]

[QUOTE=Contag;33133828]Actual result:
1) Get sued
2) Unable to pay for good enough lawyer
3) Lose and forced to pay legal costs for Apple
4) Flee to Iran[/QUOTE]

Why would I get sued? How was I supposed to know Apple was going to make a product by that name? I just wanted the cool site name. Regardless, I got it first. Happened with countless companies when the WWW was just getting rolling. People grabbed the domain names because those companies weren't convinced that newfangled internerts thing was gonna catch on.

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=Miskav;33133038]You act like porn is bad or socially unacceptable.
This isn't the 1960's.[/QUOTE]

I don't find anything wrong with porn, but a lot of people do. Especially in the US, where Apple does most of their business.

They're defending their trademark.
Creating a porn site is cool and all, just don't use somebody else's trademark as your domain name. I'm sure there are countless people who go to iphone4s.com expecting to find iphones but get porn instead. I think it could harm Apple's image, so they have a right to sue for it.

[dbk21894]

[QUOTE=Contag;33133828]Actual result:
1) Get sued
2) Unable to pay for good enough lawyer
3) Lose and forced to pay legal costs for Apple
4) Flee to Iran[/QUOTE]

You do know that in the US you don't have to pay the other party's legal fees, right?

[Heatvision...]

[QUOTE=Heatvision...;33133344]Lmao at psychic porn sites[/QUOTE]

Porn predicted this day would cum

[Starpluck]

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;33133603]New marketing strategy.

1) Purchase domains for potential product names with the letter i in front of them.
2) Wait for Apple to make product with that name.
3) Sell domain to Apple for stupidly high price.
4) Loadsofemone[/QUOTE]

Contag is more accurate:

[QUOTE=Contag;33133828]Actual result:
1) Get sued
2) Unable to pay for good enough lawyer
3) Lose and forced to pay legal costs for Apple
4) Flee to Iran[/QUOTE]

A case similar to yours scenario existed. A student named Mike Rowe decided to make a website based off his name, but he also "thought it would be funny to add 'soft' to the end of it." When he was contacted by Microsoft, they offered to pay him the cost of registering the domain ($10).

But merely because he made a counter-offer of $10,00 Microsoft was able to use that as proof of Mike Row setting up the site in order to try to force them into a large financial settlement.

In the end, he went to the media causing large support for his cause and destroyed MS' PR which led Microsoft to agree to settle by giving him all sorts of products and training in exchange for the domain

[S31-Syntax]

[QUOTE=Starpluck;33135420]Contag is more accurate:

A case similar to yours scenario existed. A student named Mike Rowe decided to make a website based off his name, but he also "thought it would be funny to add 'soft' to the end of it." When he was contacted by Microsoft, they offered to pay him the cost of registering the domain ($10).

But merely because he made a counter-offer of $10,00 Microsoft was able to use that as proof of Mike Row setting up the site in order to try to force them into a large financial settlement.

In the end, he went to the media causing large support for his cause and destroyed MS' PR which led Microsoft to agree to settle by giving him all sorts of products and training in exchange for the domain[/QUOTE]

I can see your point there, but that only went down because he made a counter-offer and the website obviously wasn't being used.

However, my idea relied on a gamble, trying making a domain for a product that didn't even exist yet and may not ever exist. With that in mind, they could not easily prove in a court of law that I made it solely to get money from them as the product in question did not exist at the time of the website's purchase. Additionally, if I were to use the website for a legitimate purpose and the purpose of the site was related to the name enough to be easily understood and was not destructive to the image of Apple, it would add enough defensive barriers around my case to warrant a counter-offer and easily hold itself in court.

[Smartlord]

[QUOTE=Starpluck;33135420]A student named Mike Rowe decided to make a website based off his name, but he also "thought it would be funny to add 'soft' to the end of it."[/QUOTE]ahahahah

wow, what a nice coincidence

(not being sarcastic, I find it funny)

[Inspecter]

[QUOTE=Aerkhan;33133156][i]>HEINZ! THE WALL FELL!
<BLEZZ ZE LORD! WHAT DO WE DO?!
>WATCH.
WEST GERMAN
SCAT PORN
<...
<GENIUS![/i][/QUOTE]

fixed it for you.

[[CWG]RustySpann]

I think this is one time where I think Apple really should be suing. iphone4s is just too similar.

[notgeogzm]

Obtain iPod/iPhone/iPad
Download Skyfire browser
Head to your favorite tube pornsite
Fuck what Apple says you can do with the iThing YOU bought

[Zyx]

For once I can actually see apple have legitimate reasons to do.. Well, whatever else they have done lately :v:

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;33132436]Why must Apple do this kind of shit.[/QUOTE]

Some of the domains they're attacking make sense (such as iphone4s.com). If someone were to register left4dead3.com between Valve announcing L4D3 and Valve registering the domain name, Valve would get upset over it.

[maurits]

[QUOTE=lavacano;33140344]Some of the domains they're attacking make sense (such as iphone4s.com). If someone were to register left4dead3.com between Valve announcing L4D3 and Valve registering the domain name, Valve would get upset over it.[/QUOTE]

left4dead3.com..[b]OH GOD[/b]

[[CWG]RustySpann]

[QUOTE=lavacano;33140344]Some of the domains they're attacking make sense (such as iphone4s.com). If someone were to register left4dead3.com between Valve announcing L4D3 and Valve registering the domain name, Valve would get upset over it.[/QUOTE]
Did you just register that? It's far too much of a coincidence. Surely.