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Via Sahar’s blog:

As widely reported by now, FMA has lost LH.Com in a NAF ruling.

While many think this is a disgrace (which I tend to agree), this decision, because it involves FMA, is not the worst thing that could have happened.

FMA is operated by Thunayan Al-Ghanim. For those who don’t know, Thunayan is no ordinary domainer. While FMA holds a great portfolio of generic domain names which includes i.net, multimedia.com, research.com, fm.com, and party.com (amongst many others), as Thunayan comes from one of the world’s wealthiest families, domains there seems to be more of a hobby than a business. If there is one person who can stand up to Corporate America, Lufthansa did a great job finding him.

Continue reading Sahar’s post here…

Although LH is Lufthansa’s airline code, I don’t see why Deutsche Lufthansa AG was granted the right to use the highly valuable two-letter domain LH.COM. This is an acronym domain which can stand for many other meanings, it does not infringe on Lufthansa’s trademark. I wish Thunayan Al-Ghanim (FMA) good luck with fighting the NAF ruling!