Re: [ga] ORG: some answers from ICANN

[Kendall Dawson <kendall@obs-us.com>]

At 12:55 PM 3/25/01 -0500, Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:
>  Same goes for your selling of domains which were
>  subsequently claimed/recognized as trademark
>"property" by large corporate entities, at the
>expense of the individuals and small businesses
>that had *legally* registered them.  After all, is
>it not the case that certain domains were *not*
>allowed for registration, i.e. "Oylympic"
>domains?


Good point Sotiris! There is a small pizza place around the corner from my 
house named "Olympic Pizza". I highly doubt that they would be allowed to 
register "olympicpizza.com" from NSI. (Not to mention the fight from the 
Olympics committee).... Meanwhile, you have people registering names like 
"americanexpress.net" and "attwireless.com" being bought from NSI without 
any problem. Generic words are not "property" and nobody has any god-given 
"right" to use these terms. This is why so many individuals and 
small-businesses are becoming disillusioned with ICANN. And the "Sunrise 
Proposal" is not going to help.

Regards,

Kendall


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