[105597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Jun 27 15:29:10 2008
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:26:50 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BF08482709F8B24484F80A48DE20BEF3707B82@agusto.kerfisleiga.is>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:07:57PM -0000, Martin Hannigan wrote:
[ quoting me ]
> >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.
Sure; MarkMonitor has a great sales staff.
But the methods by which you can violate a trademark are *very* clearly
defined, and the mere existence of a domain name doesn't seem to be one
of them. IANAL.
Cheers,
-- jra
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