The solution, say some of the US internet experts, is to revive the .us domain. This would bring the us domain in line with the rest of the world which use their country codes. A domain name is the Internet address for a webpage. Unlike trade marks which can be shared between users in different classes of business, a domain name can only be used by a single entity. Most businesses want their business name in its simplest form as a domain name.
Difficulties can occur in enforcing rights which are unprotected by registered trade marks.
Where the applicant does not have a legitimate reason for requesting the domain name then the allocation may be open to challenge. This is particularly so where the registration of the domain name constitutes cybersquatting. Cybersquatting is a new tort in English Law which derives from the English Courts decision in Glaxo-Wellcome . If these are genuine, some jurisdictions are permitting these, but usually such domains are open to challenge. Indeed, the English Courts recognised this in the recent case of One in a Million 1998 and reassigned the name to the claimants whose corporate names had been registered.