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Re: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens
From: John Levine <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 28 Jun 2008 19:38:23 -0000
One way to provide protection is too allow those who have the domain portion of any domain.(com|net|org|...) to have first dibs for the domain of any new gTLD. i.e. if nanog.org, nanog.com, nanog.net, etc. would have first dibs on nanog.thisisgreatstuff. Or is that too simplistic and fraught with division?
I own iecc.com. A group of educators in Minnesota own iecc.org. A speculator in the UK owns iecc.net. Which, if any, of us gets first dibs on iecc.thisisgreatstuff? On the other hand, there is a school of thought voiced by the trademark lawyers that the main goal of new TLDs is to shake down trademark owners, who are advised by their lawyers that they have to buy defensive registrations in every new domain. ICANN helps this along by mandating a sunrise period for each new domain in which the trademark crowd can make their claims before the hoi polloi are allowed in. In any event the question of to what extent a domain name is a trademark or other identifier with scope beyond the DNS has been argued and litigated for over a decade, and we're not going to resolve it here. Regards, John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
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- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs), (continued)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) Bill Nash (Jun 27)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) Marshall Eubanks (Jun 27)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) David Conrad (Jun 27)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) Bill Nash (Jun 27)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) Bill Nash (Jun 27)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) David Conrad (Jun 27)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) WWWhatsup (Jun 27)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) David Conrad (Jun 28)
- RE: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) Frank Bulk - iNAME (Jun 28)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET (Jun 28)
- Re: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens John Levine (Jun 28)
- RE: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens Frank Bulk - iNAME (Jun 28)
- RE: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens John Levine (Jun 28)
- Re: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens Roland Perry (Jun 28)
- Re: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens Jean-François Mezei (Jun 28)
- Re: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jun 29)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) Bill Nash (Jun 27)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) Roland Perry (Jun 28)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 30)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) Eric Brunner-Williams (Jun 29)
- Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs) Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 27)