[105646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Sat Jun 28 07:38:02 2008
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:37:52 +0200
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <AC7AF8F3-7D04-4A89-9E8A-A98E2ACB48EF@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Owen DeLong (owen) writes:
>>
> Whether some choose to do that or not, I believe that the point is that:
>
> 1. Nobody is FORCING them to do so.
Trademark law is forcing you to - you have to make reasonable attempts
to actively defend your trademark. Of course, no-one forces you
to trademark your name in the first place. Not that I agree with the
practice, either.
Phil
