[12304] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Name Reg. Time for Policy Change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Willis Marti)
Sun May 15 08:04:37 1994
From: Willis Marti <willis@cs.tamu.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 May 1994 16:45:11 -0500
To: com-priv@psi.com, kwe@cerf.net, nettech@crl.com
>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.
And how do you propose we handle host names like 'hobbes' { a great ftp site }?
Or 'spock' or 'ftp.com'? {how does one trademark ftp?}
Despite the popularity of the mtv.com site., maybe one could make the
argument that anyone braindamaged enough to think it is MTV Inc sponsored
wouldn't be smart enough to use mosaic in the first place. 8-)
