[ga] New TM rules for our intended TLDs

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Dames and Gentlemen,

we had a meeting yesterday at one of the three comities
for new TLDs I am involved with. The current outcome is as follows:

-  the Internet routing rules must be simple, clear, understandable
    by everyone and out of any "legalities"

-  UDRP could be used with two provisions:

    - domain names should be defined in it, question: is it possible
      as erroneous legal definition may already exist?
    - rules should be added/managed to avoid conflicts, as follows.

Rules :

-  registering a DN is starting a business as long as the DN
    goes to an error page (to avoid delays to other users).

-  no UDRP can be filed against a dormant DN, as this may be
    pure legal intelligence, to obtain information on competition
    projects or any other form of anticomptitive action.

-  the opening of the new TLD will be published. For 3 months
    we will register DN requests from TM/company name/private
    name owners. Final registration will be granted to unique
    demanders. Others will have to participate to a common
    UDRP round to decide the winner.

-  every domain name registration will be confirmed only one
    month after request (operations may start immediately) and
    a new registration list published. This will allow new TM
    owners having registered a TM less than 30 days before
    the DN request to file an UDRP.

The aim is to create a de facto group of worldwide TLD
classes for Industrial Property and to use the revised UDRP as
an interim tool for the initial period of this concept, and
occasionally for other conflicts. We are ready to give ICC,
WIPO, NSI, etc..  accreditations if they accept these particular
rules for the TLDs we intend to manage in a collaborative
way with the registrants.

I want also to note that the three comities I am involved with
will imply nameserver software modifications. To - in total or
in part - support innovative concepts making most of the
"traditional" (?) Domain Name definition partial or obsolete,
in a fully transparent way to the DNS system and in
accordance with ICANN requirements.

We would thank you for your comments and suggestions. The
file to be submitted to the ICANN (or released to the press) is
under preparation.
Jefsey

At 08:21 02/09/00, you wrote:
>What happened with The Amazon Bookstore in Minneapolis, MN.
>Is Amazon.com going to populate the 1000 sites?  If not isn't this
>cybersquating?
>Peter Veeck

It is pure business protection. At least legal cost.
Could you give me the US legal definition of cybersquatting
(I do not know where I can find the law on line)? Thx.

>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.
> >
> > Using this serious, professionnal example it could be
> > construed that if a TM owner does not protect his TM as
> > a domain name in registering it or initiating an UDRP the
> > same month as he registers his TM it means he does not
> > really care about internet.
> >
> > The same rasoning should apply to old standing TMs; if
> > they did not tried to register or to protect it after several
> > years, it means they do not care.
> >
> > A new TM could obviously not challenge a existing DNs
> > since it is easy to everyone everywhere to check if a DN
> > exists. We could propose a Whois program where searches
> > could be made with entries as *barcelona* to find every
> > occurence of the word (there is a service like that for
> > .com .net .org .ws, but I cannot find it back).
> >
> > This would create a defacto worldwide TM internet class.
> > Jefsey
> >
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