Re: [ga] Interesting WIPO ruling re: NewZealand.biz

[Leah Gallegos <jandl@jandl.com>]

On Thursday 10 October 2002 01:15 pm, Rodrigo Orenday Serrato wrote:
> I insist that the naming of States is a matter of public interest, and
> therefore registrars should ban the registration of domain names comprising
> the names of States, unless registration is requested by the State
> concerned.

Fortunately, IMO, the law does not agree.  States and governments in general 
should use .gov or the equiv. for official uses.  If this were not the case, 
there would never be songs like "New York, New York"  or "Chicago" and there 
would not have been a ship named the Queen Mary because commercial use of a 
government name would be illegal.  In addition, there would be hundreds of 
thousands of businesses that would never have existed if the use of regions 
or government names were illegal.  UDRP should be disallowed if the result is 
the out and out theft of legitmately held domains.

Leah

The US has .gov for government domains and ccTLDs should do the same.  
Actually, .US should be the home of governmental sites for the US, IMO, with 
a .gov.us, but that is another discussion.  
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