[35475] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: new.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Batchelor)
Fri Mar 9 14:41:11 2001
From: "Mike Batchelor" <mikebat@tmcs.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:25:18 -0800
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> richb@pioneer.ci.net writes:
>
> > Corporate entities should be *required* to register in the flat dot-com
> > namespace, IMHO, and not be *allowed* names in any other namespace.
>
> I like the idea of creating a new ".tm" TLD (or something less likely
> to conflict with a CCTLD), and requiring anybody who wants trademark
> protection to register there; everything else is a free-for-all, as it
> pretty much is now. Let them have their little trademark disputes
> over there, and let less litigious heads rule in the other TLDs.
How do you propose to enforce this? What authority will be able to
intercede in a trademark lawsuit involving a domain outside .tm, and put a
stop to it?
The namespace is the namespace, and infringment is infringment, whereever it
occurs. If infringment occurs, the damaged party should not be prevented
from seeking relief.
>
> -----ScottG.
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