Re[2]: [ga] Fw: ICANN's Karl Auerbach responds to Joe Sims over .kids domain

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

Hello Karl,

Friday, July 06, 2001, 5:42:19 PM, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> Right.  And I find it very troubling that ICANN has undertaken what, to my
> mind, amounts to a vague, and probably unenforceable, promise to the
> internet community that .info and the ICANN approved version of .biz will
> be used in particular ways.

Please show where they promised anything for .info except that it was
an open unrestricted gTLD?

But that said, I completely agree with you on this:

> Is "using" a domain name to be measured by web services, by e-mail
> services, by chat or messaging services, ... ?  And what is ICANN going to
> do if somebody deep down in the ICANN approved .biz should be hosting an
> instant-message-based "escort" business?

> That kind of thing simply is not part of "technical" coordination of the
> DNS - that's the kind of thing that is better suited for a legislature to
> handle.

> As a general matter, it's my feeling that ICANN ought to be absolutely
> blind to any purported semantics of a domain name.  There are plenty of
> laws on the books already to handle defamation, trademark infringement,
> misappropriation of identity, misrepresentation, etc.  We don't need to
> overlay that system with a lex-ICANNia.

Agreed. 101%


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