Re: [ga] ICANN benefits

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Dave Crocker wrote:

> NSI had a long and painful history of very poor operations and very
> capricious decision-making.

Dave is correct.

> Trademark conflicts were ambiguous and expensive.  In fact, NSI gave
> trademark holders much more power than they have in law.  Now we have the
> UDRP and things are vastly more straight-forward and vastly cheaper.

Dave forgot to add "for the trademark interests."

The current system merely institutionalizes trademark favortism.

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