Palm Inc, the maker of Personal Digital Assistants, has agreed
to pay someone they labelled a cybersquatter for the right to use a
domain name that the company overlooked.
Dominic Hulewicz, the owner of a British internet consulting
firm, registered the domain name MyPalm.com and used it for e-mail.
Palm Inc. subsequently launched its new service for the Palm PDA
called MyPalm, announcing the title before securing the rights to
the domain name. It then threatened legal action against Hulewicz,
demanding that he transfer the domain name to the company.
Hulewicz said that he had never attempted to sell his domain
name and was refusing to transfer the name. However, he states that
Palm Inc. has since changed its attitude and he is now close to a
deal whereby he can keep he e-mail address and Palm will pay him an
undisclosed sum to redirect all visitors to MyPalm.com to Palm
Inc’s own web site.
Hulewicz has already redirected traffic to the company’s site as
an act of goodwill.
