[12323] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Name Reg. Time for Policy Change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Ragland)
Mon May 16 05:06:04 1994
From: Joe Ragland <jrr@mercury.interpath.net>
To: willis@cs.tamu.edu (Willis Marti)
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 20:03:23 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, kwe@cerf.net, nettech@crl.com
Reply-To: jrr@interpath.net
In-Reply-To: <199405142145.QAA03058@neuron.cs.tamu.edu> from "Willis Marti" at May 14, 94 04:45:11 pm
According to Willis Marti:
> >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.
>From what I understand Curry was still employed by MTV when the NIC got
a request from him to register mtv.com. So, if the NIC (internic) had checked
(and maybe they did?) then the request would appear exactly normal and
straightforward. That's no different than John Doe registering ajax.com
when Doe works for Ajax. That's his job at Ajax, Inc. What is there about
the request that would run up a red flag at the NIC?
