[142206] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Jun 20 01:15:06 2011
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:50:27 -1000."
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:14:49 +1000
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <83163718-FA5B-47BA-BA50-67701ABD5601@virtualized.org>, David Conrad
writes:
> On Jun 19, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > I'm curious how anyone that has not signed a agreement with ICANN
> > can be bound to anything in any applicant guide book. =20
>
> In order to obtain a gTLD, you have to sign a contractual agreement with =
> ICANN.
David, you are missing the point. The TM holder doesn't want the
gtld, they just want to protect their trademark. The TM holder
doesn't have a contract with ICANN. They do however have a legitimate
right to the name and want to spend $0 keeping the name out of
anybodys hands but theirs. $187K is not longer a amount to be
sneezed at.
Mark
> > Also rfp-clean-30may11-en.pdf basically deals with <tm>.<gtld>.
>
> You might want to re-read pretty much any part of that document (e.g., =
> the title).
>
> Regards,
> -drc
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