RE: [ga] NewZealand.com WIPO decision

["Rodrigo Orenday Serrato" <rorenday@banxico.org.mx>]

Amazed again?. Professor, we'd been over this one before, remember?.

If you're looking for ICJ precedents and so, I know of none such; I would
argue this on the grounds of international custom and committee. Period.

Atentamente, Regards
Rodrigo Orenday Serratos

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
[mailto:froomkin@law.miami.edu]
Enviado el: Jueves, 19 de Diciembre de 2002 05:35 PM
Para: Rodrigo Orenday Serrato
CC: 'Marc Schneiders'; 'Steven Heath'; ga@dnso.org
Asunto: RE: [ga] NewZealand.com WIPO decision


And on what existing principle of public international law do you ground
this amazaing assertion?

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Rodrigo  Orenday Serrato wrote:

> Notwithstanding this decision, I still sustain that the naming of
Sovereign
> States is a matter of public international law and public interest, and
that
> no one but a State should be allowed to use neither its official
> denomination nor its common name, absent other characters capable of
making
> it sufficiently distinctive.
>
> Atentamente, Regards
> Rodrigo Orenday Serratos
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]En nombre de Marc
> Schneiders
> Enviado el: Jueves, 19 de Diciembre de 2002 03:35 PM
> Para: Steven Heath
> CC: ga@dnso.org
> Asunto: RE: [ga] NewZealand.com WIPO decision
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, at 09:27 [=GMT+1300], Steven Heath wrote:
>
> > Even more interesting to read the BNA Law summary of the decision:
> >
> > Further, the panel termed the action "baseless" and "misconceived"
> > as it unanimously found that the government engaged in reverse domain
name
> > hijacking in bringing the action."
>
> Congratulations to the NZ government. I don't think any other government
> has been declared to be a domain name hijacker. (The decision occurs very
> rarely and governments/city councils tend to win.) A Book of Records entry
> for the country named after a province in mine!
>
> The fact that the NZ government did file the complaint, shows that even
> among those elected by the people, attempting theft is not a big deal. Or
> is it that the UDRP, as applied, is succeeding in misleading good
> politicians into believing Everything Trademark Lawyers Dream of When They
> Do Not Have a Nightmare?
>
> Is there any progress to report about the pending review of the UDRP by
> ICANN, due for end 2000?
>
> Will the evaluation of new gTLDs also take so long to get going? I hope
> not.
>
> There are some facts we best ignore, right?
>
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