Re: [ga] DNSO ICANN board member

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:33:05PM -0700, William X. Walsh wrote:
> Hello Kent,
> 
> Thursday, August 31, 2000, 12:26:22 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > Sure -- that's known as "eminent domain".  The government can indeed
> > take away your land, to, for example, build a power plant, whether it is
> 
> With due process of law, and with adequate compensation for its worth.

Of course.

> Neither of which is in place for domain names being unlawfully taken

Irrelevant to the point I was making, which was that property rights are
not simple, and that comparisons between ownership of real property and 
registration of domain names are worthless and misleading.  

Whatever rights may exist in domain names are being created; they do not
preexist.  

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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