[142194] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Jun 20 00:02:38 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110620034629.C304E10EBF12@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:01:39 -1000
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 19, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
>> I would guess that most of these are going to be purchased simply to
>> prevent someone else from getting them
> I would agree with this part.
I suspect you underestimate the desires and power of marketing folks at =
larger organizations.
> Adding gtlds and opening up the root to brands effectively requires
> TM holders to register/bid to protect their TM rights. =20
Not really. You might want to search on "trademark" in =
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/rfp-clean-30may11-en.pdf. =
There has been a tremendous amount of traffic on that particular issue =
and that is reflected in the Applicant Guidebook.
> It will be even
> more interesting if ICANN looses and has to roll back brand =
delegations
> it has made.
Really, if you're going to opine on the disasters that will befall ICANN =
as a result of the new gTLD program, you might want to actually read =
what that program does and doesn't do. Really.
Regards,
-drc
