Re: [ga] Interesting WIPO ruling re: NewZealand.biz

[Andy Gardner <andy@navigator.co.nz>]

At 10:46 AM -0700 10/8/02, George Kirikos wrote:
>There are country codes, e.g. .nz, if they need geographic names.
>They're not entitled to that name in every namespace, especially not
>the gTLD spaces. e.g. Canada.com is run by a commercial company, not
>the Canadian government. If I had the foresight to have registered it
>first, I wouldn't want the government yanking it back from me, ala
>Barcelona.com and other poor decisions. If they want the name, they can
>pay market rates for it, and not expropriate the name without
>compensation.

Well, having got the .biz, they're going after newzealand.com too.

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