Re: [ga] UDRP Questionnaire

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Roberto et al.,

So if MADONNA.COM is "a mnemonic way to reach a "thing" that has an Internet
address" why does the popstar have some kind of claim to ownership of the
domain?  Or how about the BARCELONA.COM domain?  I'm sorry Roberto, but your
response is a little too simplistic, almost naive.  If I were to ask you what
"gold" was would you tell me it was just a yellow metal?

Labels in assembler programs mean specifically whatever the programmer assigns
to them... in the case of domain names, where is the programmer who defines
their signification?  Isn't the original registrant the arbiter of meaning as a
domain name's creator?

Regards,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos

Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> Sotiris,
>
> I may miss the point, but to me a domain name is exactly what defined in the
> document referenced by Sandy, i.e. a mnemonic way to reach a "thing" that
> has an Internet address.
>
> This is why they have been created, anyway.
>
> This is the same reason why "labels" have been introduced in assembler
> programs: to avoid to be obliged to reference the relative address of a code
> statement.
>
> Regards
> Roberto
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:
> >
> >Sandy Harris wrote:
> >
> > > The closest thing to a definition, in rather formal terms:
> > >
> > > | 3.1. Name space specifications and terminology
> > > |
> > > | The domain name space is a tree structure.  Each node and leaf on the
> > > | tree ...
> > > |
> > > | Each node has a label, ... One label is reserved, and that is
> > > | the null (i.e., zero length) label used for the root.
> > > |
> > > | The domain name of a node is the list of the labels on the path from
> > > | the node to the root of the tree.  By convention, the labels that
> > > | compose a domain name are printed or read left to right, from the
> > > | most specific (lowest, farthest from the root) to the least specific
> > > | (highest, closest to the root).
> >
> >Thanks for digging this up Sandy, but as you know, this is simply a
> >description
> >of the DNS.
> >
> >Is anyone else aware of anything approaching a definition of Domain Names?
> >I
> >must admit, I am rather surprised that we have not heard from anyone in the
> >IP
> >field on this matter.  It seems to me that domain names must be *something*
> >if
> >they can be subjected to a "sham" (a la Bill Lovell) process such as the
> >UDRP
> >in the first place!  Surely somebody representing the IP community must
> >have
> >something to offer us on this topic?
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> >
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