Re: [ga] FW: An interesting dissent to sunrise provisions

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 12:36 14.04.2000 -0600, Michael wrote:
>    But to return to the water law paradigm, doesn't it make sense to 
> incorporate a
>procedure in which someone holding domain space for 3 (or 5 or 7) years 
>without
>going on line or putting the domain space to work will have to forfeit their
>rights?
this was discussed during the WIPO Experts' meeting too (and, I'm sure, at 
millions of other discussions).

The problem with requiring "use" is that the investment for setting up 
something that looks like usage of the name is almost nil - the absolutely 
cheapest is aliasing "www.<yourname>.com" to someone else's website, but 
"domain parking" facilities are widely available too.

I sympathize - the Norwegian rules have a rule saying that a domain where 
no listed nameserver is reachable and configured for the domain is recycled 
after 3 months - but if the owner has just a slight interest in keeping it, 
it is almost impossible (IMHO) to make a forfeit clause stick.

Apart from that, I liked the model!

                Harald

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no

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