Re: [ga] America's Cup

[James Touton <james.touton@netzero.net>]

Harald and all stakeholders,

  In that the tentitive agreements that NSI has with the NTIA cover
.com I don't see this all that interesting. In fact I would
expect to see this to continue to occur.  It is strictly a
juridictional issue.

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> At 17:05 09.12.99 -0500, Martin B. Schwimmer wrote:
> >Referring to the article in today's NY Times regarding the first three
> >reported cybersquatting cases, see:
> >
> >http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/09net.html
>
> I find the most interesting thing about this situation is that two
> litigants, both New Zealanders, who already have a case running before NZ
> courts on the same problem, choose to get a preliminary injunction in US
> court because that works faster.
>
> If this holds up, it might mean that US law applies to the .com domain, period.
>
>                       Harald
>
> --
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no

James Touton
Legal and policy advisory council
INEGroup Intl.  (Stakeholder)

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