[105758] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Jun 30 17:08:39 2008
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:06:40 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:49:35PM -0500, Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote:
> 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?
Oh, ick. No, it's just dumb.
Could someone, anyone, anywhere, point me to *any case law in any
jurisdiction whatsoever* which tends even to *suggest* that the mere
purchase and deployment of a domain name *in itself* in any way
constitutes infringement upon the rights of some holder of a trademark
to some component of that domain name?
or else shut the hell up about it, already?
Cheers,
-- jra
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