[142208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Jun 20 01:21:08 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110620051449.8B94710EDC64@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:20:57 -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
Mark,
RTFDAG.
Regards,
-drc
On Jun 19, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
>> 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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