Re: [ga] TLD feedback from a client

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

   For those who are trademark experts, would an Amazon.biz violate
anyone's legitmate trademark rights?   How about drugstore.biz?  Or
Amazon.travel?  


On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, JandL wrote:

> For this client:
> 
> part of the reason for new TLD's is the fact that there is more than 
> one application for a single name since the DNS requires unique 
> addresses. I guess tm holders could race for domain names in all 
> TLD's which would be foolish.   However, I can think of several 
> applications for an acronym such as ibm.  How about Ford - motors, 
> models, Joe Ford, etc. All of them should have the opportunity to 
> use it.  One solution, of course, is to have TLDs dedicated to 
> Trademarks only, such as tmk, reg,...
> 
> As for as many trademarks as colors in the rainbow, how about all 
> the classes in which a trademark can be registered?  There should 
> be at least that many TLD's. :)
> 
> Leah Gallegos
> 
> > FYI, this is some feedback from a client on proposed new TLDs.
> > 
> > ---------
> > > Incidently, I think ICANN has made a big error with the new
> > > extensions. It sets up a completely bad environment that is nothing
> > > short of extortion for the new domain providers.  Every company
> > > needing to protect its existing domains now needs to pay someone for
> > > another domain JUST to prevent a squatter.  It is the equivlent of
> > > permitting some agency to authorize a whole new set of trademarks in
> > > every color in the rainbow. So the black IBM is not good enough, you
> > > now need to buy the red and blue and green and yellow and
> > > chartreus....all from different companies. Frankly, they would have
> > > been a lot smarter if they had just abandoned the domain name system
> > > and reverted to the numerical IP system. It has worked fine for the
> > > telephone system for many years.
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