[64204] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Levine)
Thu Oct 16 23:27:49 2003
In-Reply-To: <sh4qy87ida.fsf@lnxcu9.lns.cornell.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:27:10 -0400
To: Dan Riley <dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Oct 16, 2003, at 9:39 PM, Dan Riley wrote:
>
> <snip>
> And write your congressmen to explain how Verisign is abusing a
> government granted monopoly to stop others (including M$ and AOL) from
> innovating at the edge, because that's where this is headed--Verisign
> is ultimately counting on having better lobbyists with USDOC than
> ICANN, and they're probably safe to do so unless DOC feels some
> oversight from above.
Has anybody thought to explore the trademark implications of sitefinder?
For example, verisign is returning A records (and subsequently earning
revenue from that traffic) for say:
COKE-SOFT-DRINK.COM
TIDE-DETERGENT.COM
etc..
Perhaps having the legal departments from Coke and P&G targetting them
might make verisign rethink some policies?
Perhaps not.. just a thought..
>
> -dan
>
>
--
Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>
"The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was." -BIX
