Re: [ga] AMAZON

[Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>]

> Jefsey Morfin wrote:
> 
> > Jamie, Louise, and other UDRP afficionados...
> >
> > This is an interesting tip: I just read in GreatDomains letter
> > that AMAZON has resgitered more than1000 DNs with
> > AMAZON in it this year and they keep going. It shows
> > these guies have the proper way of doing it: they register first.

I'm completeley boggled here. I find it extremely difficult to believe
you're serious.

If Amazon are registering hundreds of domains, then either their
business practices or the domain system are seriously flawed. Perhaps
both? 

and "Michael F. McNulty" replied:
> 
> Terrible logic.
> The only reason Amazon would register hundreds and hundreds of domains
> that it does not need or use,
> is to avoid the legal expenses of shutting down the leeches that prey on
> other companies' names.
> Why should any company have to squander these resources just to avoid
> pirates?

I'd say the interesting question was, if they've registered amazon.org
and amazon.net, do we have any procedure whereby a group of muscular
women (an ORGanisation of Amazons) or a Brazilian ISP (a NET in the
Amazon) can take those away? Could the UDRP do that?

I suspect it is far too late for this view, but it seems to me freeing
up namespace Amazon might be monopolizing with such registrations is a
legitimate thing for ICANN to be doing. This would benefit the net.

It is far less clear that protecting trademarks does anything for the
net. In fact, I consider it an open question whether the mechanisms
put in place will do damage.

As for amazon-cds.com and amazon-paperbacks.com, I do not see a large
problem.
	They can register them if they like.
	If someone beats them to it, they may have legal redress under
	  trademark laws.
	Those are appropriate things for the dispute resolution mechanism
	 to deal with.

In any case, once they've got amazon.com, they automatically have any
subdomains they care to create. cds.amazon.com, paperbacks.amazon.com,
... whatever they like. So there's absolutely no problem of restricted
resources in that namespace.
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