Big Publishing Group Demands Domain

Believe it or not, this kind of thing happens a lot.

I registered deusto.com in 1997. Now, eight years later, Planeta Agostini, one of the biggest publishing groups in Spain and owner of Ediciones Deusto, sends me letters demanding me to transfer them the domain, because they registered the trademark "deusto" in 2002 .

Now they have presented a complaint to the WIPO and the domain is suspended.

There is no logical reason why the publisher should be granted ownership of the domain, like many other cases I have seen.

Let's hope this is the exception to the rule.

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