Netvibes wants me to change my Universe name. Why ? It's a "generic term"

Remember my post about the war of Domain names in Netvibes Universes ?

I was surprised that you could choose almost any universe name you wanted.

So, I decided to try myself. I created a few Universes. One of those is:

http://www.netvibes.com/travel Not big deal, but I founded strange that Netvibes had not protect it ;).

Anyway, Netvibes has decided to act and here the email I just received today with the injunction to change my Universe name :

Dear Ginger private beta tester,

We would like to thank you for your participation in our beta
program and for the huge interest you had in creating your public
page but it has come to our attention that the name you selected
for your Netvibes universe (which appears on the URL of your
universe) may be in violation of our Terms of Service either
because this name is a generic term or because it might
potentially infringe upon the rights of third parties.

We'll soon provide new features which will make it easier for you
to share interests but in the meantime we kindly demand that you
modify this name in your profile http://www.netvibes.com/#view-profile
as soon as possible, but no later than in the next 7 days, or that
you provide us with evidence that you possess the necessary rights
to such name. If not, we would be forced to have it modified or to
suspend your account.

Thank you for your cooperation and we hope you enjoy Ginger. If
you think this email has been sent by mistake please contact
our support.
http://www.netvibes.com/static.php?show=feedback

Best Regards,

The Netvibes Team
http://www.netvibes.com/

Of course I will change it, but I wonder if Netvibes will send similar emails to the following existing Universe:

http://www.netvibes.com/news
http://www2.netvibes.com/web
http://www2.netvibes.com/sex
http://www2.netvibes.com/sexe
http://www.netvibes.com/games
http://www2.netvibes.com/auto
http://www2.netvibes.com/tech
http://www2.netvibes.com/music
http://www2.netvibes.com/photo
http://www2.netvibes.com/photos
http://www.netvibes.com/film
http://www.netvibes.com/foot

http://www.netvibes.com/france
http://www.netvibes.com/uk
http://www.netvibes.com/italy

http://www.netvibes.com/tomtom
http://www.netvibes.com/hp

I am surprised that Netvibes reacts afterwards, it could have been simpler to prevent users to choose the terms that Netvibes had reserved from a list...

Netvibes Ginger will bring a new battle for "domain" names ?

Hi,

With the Ginger release coming for everyone and the possibility for anyone to choose his preferred Universe Name, there is a high risk of finding a lot of Coca-cola, Nike, Prada Universes... like what happened during the Internet Domain names war.

Of course Brand Names are subject to the Netvibes -Terms of Service (ToS) stating:

Conduct of Users:...
"...not to make available any content that you do not have the lawful right to transmit (including any content that would violate any confidentiality or fiduciary obligations you might have), that would infringe the intellectual or proprietary rights of any third party (including, but not limited to, copyright, trademark, service mark or patent rights), or that would violate the right of privacy or publicity of any public or non-public persons;"

But what about Institutions like: Onu, Unicef, European Parliament or Public Names like: Carla Bruni, George Clooney, Barack Obama, ... ? Are they going to be available for an Universe name ?

Of course, Netvibes ToS has a prevision by which:

"In case of any violation of the above, Netvibes reserves the right to cancel or rename your account and/or to block you from accessing the Site as well as to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation, governmental request or partner request, at its sole discretion. Netvibes also reserves the right to block the distribution of Your Content or any Third-Party Content through the Service."

and also:

"Netvibes provides its users (“You”), for a non-commercial personal use, with a fully-customizable Site" but it will be difficult to check every Universe...

But it will be interesting to see what names will flourish... and if that could also be a source of revenues for Netibes.