Re: [ga] Re: Joker.com filing "common law" .info claims

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

William X Walsh wrote:

> Sunday, Sunday, September 02, 2001, 12:48:12 AM, PacificRoot Hostmaster wrote:
>
> > But of course hoarding domain names in the hopes of extorting money from
> > others who have a real need to develop content there is wrong, but being
>
> Yes, use it or lose it should apply in all parts of our lives then.  A
> neighbor has a great classic car, that he never drives.
>
> Therefore he shouldn't own it, since he is not using it the way the
> makers intended and is therefore depriving me of its use.
>
> There is nothing wrong with purchasing domain names on a speculative
> basis, or anything else for that matter.
>
> It drives the free market economy.

Methinks Mr. Walsh misses the essential point. It is NOT a "free market
economy" when a registrar can hoard names with impunity, whereas if you
or I as individuals did it, we'd be cybersquatters.  It is extremely difficult
to avoid the surmise that the so-called Anticybersquatting Consumer
Protection Act was passed firstly to protect NSI/Verisign's ability to do
that, and secondly all the other (now) registrars that NSI/Verisign now
has to contend with.  Surely it is a "free market economy" within the select
group allowed to hoard, but it is not with respect to the rest of us. That "law"
singles out a specific class of Internet users ("operators," etc.) and gives
them special privileges.

But William and I have had this argument before! :-)

Bill Lovell

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The URLs for Best Practices:
DNSO Citation:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/gaindex.html
(Under "Other Information Documents"; "August 2001:
Proposal for Best Practices for the DNSO GA." This
page also includes much else about the DNSO.)
Part I:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BestPractices.html
Part II:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-flowchart.pdf
(Access to the .pdf file requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader,
available for free down load at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)
Part III:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-PartIII.html


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