{"id":5025,"date":"2008-10-16T18:58:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T01:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2008-10-16T18:58:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T01:58:06","slug":"sarasota-association-of-realtors-the-real-cybersquat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5025\/sarasota-association-of-realtors-the-real-cybersquat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarasota Association of Realtors – The real Cybersquat"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are not familiar with the controversy brewing around Marc Rasmussen, here is a great place to start<\/a>. Morgan has laid the essence of the story out for the world to see. Others are starting to chime in already on it as well.<\/p>\n

It boils down NOT to trademark (because MLS is NOT a trademark that NAR owns), but greed and envy from fellow REALTORS over a guy who worked his butt off to get ahead. It boils down to an Association that is run amok. They battle a guy and take him to court and when they finally win, and he redirects the domain, they then go to ICANN and try to win the right to take ownership of it, by claiming his domain is confusing to potential customers and Cybersquatting. And he is now appealling ICANN’s decision that will send his site–and the authority that it has built (his site is dominant in the search engine rankings)–over to his association. When he re-directed the domain, the battle was over. He was no longer “cybersquatting” at that point. He was no longer hurting them, but by them trying to grab his domain, they were trying to take away his asset and livelihood pretty much to make a point.<\/p>\n

That is not right. That is a land grab. That is PUNITIVE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He (Marc Rasmussen) is no different than you or I. He built his website’s authority over a number of years. I have known him for several of those years. And because he had the courage to buck the MLS “supposed trademark that they do not have” issue, he had to fight his own “Association”. Standing up against idiocy. Many of us have had local issues that we stood up for. And yet, this one will cost Marc dearly. <\/p>\n

My take? (Glad you asked!) I am TIRED of jealous folks at a local Board of REALTORS using thug tactics (and loopholes brought about by IDIOTIC NAR regulations that should never have been made in the first place) to bring someone who is extraordinarily achieving into line with the rest of their Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are not familiar with the controversy brewing around Marc Rasmussen, here is a great place to start. Morgan has laid the essence of the story out for the world to see. Others are starting to chime in already on it as well. 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