[12294] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Name Reg. Time for Policy Change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Sat May 14 17:24:16 1994
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 19:46:49 -0700
To: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>, com-priv@psi.com
From: kwe@cerf.net (Kent W. England)
At 12:35 PM 5/12/94 -0700, Joseph W. Stroup wrote:
>
>I think that its time for a policy change regarding the way domain names
>are assigned. A new problem that is going to become a profit center for
>some lawyer, will be to sue people who register names that have been
>covered by a Trademark, Servicemark, copyright etc. The NIC should be
>very carefull about this. Obvious things such as PEPSI.COM, COKE.COM,
>EXXON.COM (examples only) should not be registered unless those companies
>are actually the ones making the request. You would not be allowed to
>have a phone listed under PEPSI for obvious reasons so why a domain name.
Sounds like a business opportunity for you to check trademark and
servicemark registration, not something new for Registration Services to
undertake.
In any event, prior use takes precedence, so even a PTO search is not
conclusive enough to grant a right to use a domain name.
Just my opinion.
--Kent
