Re: [ga] Research: .NAME Registrations Not Conforming to .NAME Registration Restrictions

["John Palmer" <jp@ADNS.NET>]

Here is another one for you in case you havent got this on your list.
Look up BILL.GATES.NAME.

Doesn't sound like Bill Gates.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Edelman" <edelman@law.harvard.edu>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:44 AM
Subject: [ga] Research: .NAME Registrations Not Conforming to .NAME
Registration Restrictions


> GA members have previously offered a variety of comments on charters,
uses,
> and allegations of impermissible registrations in new TLDs.  In this
> context, I thought GA readers might be interested in my new ".NAME
> Registrations Not Conforming to .NAME Registration Restrictions."
>
> In this research, I document nearly 6000 .NAME domain names that seem not
to
> conform to .NAME's registration restrictions.  Contrary to .NAME's
registry
> agreement (with ICANN) and registration agreement (with registrants, via
> registrars), each name in my listings is seemingly not the name or
pseudonym
> of any individual.  Instead, these names serve a variety of different
> functions -- names of companies (sharper.image.name), organizations
> (harvard.university.name), products (allergy.tylenolallergysinus.name),
and
> geographic locations (stateof.california.name), for example, along with a
> variety of names related to sexually-explicit content and domain name
> registration.   These many nonconforming registrations, constituting more
> than 8% of currently-registered .NAME domains, call into question the
> effectiveness of enforcement of .NAME registration restrictions.
>
> I've tabulated the names alphabetically, by registrant (for those
> registrants with the most registrations), and by registrar.  At the
> suggestion of readers of my previous work, I've also made it easier to
find
> the specific domains registered, for example, by a given registrar.
>
> My work is available at:
>   <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/name-restrictions/>.
>
>
> I'm currently beginning what I expect will be a several-month project of
> quantitatively evaluating and documenting all new TLDs.  I welcome
> suggestions from GA members as to important focus areas for my research.
>
>
> Ben Edelman
> Berkman Center for Internet & Society
> Harvard Law School
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/edelman
>
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