Re: [ga] FYI: WLS Vote of Transfers Task Force

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 12:23 p.m. 26/07/2002 -0700, William X Walsh wrote:

>Get it through your head, Todd.
>
>Let me spell it out very slowly for you:
>
>D-o-m-a-i-n   n-a-m-e-s   a-r-e   n-o-t   a-u-t-o-m-a-t-i-c-a-l-l-y
>i-n-t-e-l-l-e-c-t-u-a-l   p-r-o-p-e-r-t-y.
>
>Do you understand that now, Todd?

What a briliant example of argument by bullying. :-)
How relevant is this "not automatically" or "intellectual" anyway?

The important issue is that Domain Names do carry *a* property aspect.

>A domain name is a service, paid for, for a fixed period of time.


Repeating the mantra of the registration industry does not create law.
There is a lot more to our Domain Names.

Property rights in Domain Names are currently sub judice in a Federal 
Appeals court.

Until this issue comes back from the Supreme Court, the battle isn't over.

And then there are the ccTLD's..., national laws, jurisdictions outside the 
U.S....


--Joop

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