As a result, gold4rs have now established their gold-selling site on another domain name "gold4fun". It now seems thought that the domain name "gold4rs.com" is still owned by the gold-selling company, since it is using a permanent redirect function to redirect surfers to their new site.
Now did the company behind gold4rs breach any copyright issues by having rs in their web url? Most likely not. There have been similar issues in the past with wordpress.org, where the company was suing website owners for using the word "wordpress" in their domain names. After court settlements, it was ruled that the word "wp" would be an adequate alternative and would conform with copyright laws.
Similarly, it should be about the same story with runescape. If Jagex were to really sue some gold-selling and bot companies in court, for cause of them having the "rs" acronym in the website name, they would not win. After all, nobody owns the alphabet!
But I was wondering, is that Jagex's only strategy to combat real-world trading and botting? I hope they have an actual approach... because this won't get them very far.
Gold4RS reports selling between 6 and 8 trillion gold in runescape each year. That's around 6 million US dollars with current pricing.
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