‘Sucks’ sites to be doled
‘Sucks’ sites to be doled out for free
Cyber-gripers, take heart. You and your “ThisCompanySucks.com” Web site have a patron. Free speech lawyer Ed Harvilla is worried that too many “sucks” domains have been taken away from owners and given to their target companies. So he and some silent partners have developed a system to dole out “sucks” Web sites — and he’s given them away for free.
One of the reasons cited by WIPO that VivendiUniversalSucks.com was trademark infringement: the company might "post a site suggesting it 'sucked' — such as a vacuum cleaner retailer." That makes sense. What more logical brand extension could there be for an entertainment company than vacuums? Theaters showing Universal films could use them to suck up spilled popcorn. And Vivendi Vacuums has sort of ring to it.
