Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jun 26, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:

> > And no, companies *aren't* "forced to pay for another domain name"  
> > just
> > because a new TLD appears -- they aren't doing it *now*, by and  
> > large,
> > and thank ghod:
>
> The last time I looked there were a few thousand companies  
> protecting their intellectual property by using companies like Mark  
> Monitor to insure that they had defensive registrations in all  
> ccTLD's possible.
>
> -M<
Whether some choose to do that or not, I believe that the point is that:

1.      Nobody is FORCING them to do so.

2.      Most are _NOT_ doing so.

3.      It is somewhat anti-social to do so, but, that has rarely been a
        constraint on corporate greed, especially amongst the Intelectual
        Property crowd.

Owen