Re[2]: [ga] ICANN benefits

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Dave,

Friday, April 06, 2001, 8:01:55 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:

> At 06:53 PM 4/6/2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>>On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Dave Crocker wrote:
>> > 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.

> The law in most countries "institutionalizes trademark favortism".  It has 
> done that rather longer than ICANN has been around...

Bullocks.  The UDRP grants greater rights to trademark holders than
the laws of any nation grant them.  There is nothing, NOTHING, about
domain names that warrants any higher level of protection for
trademarks than exists in any other medium.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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