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

["Rodrigo Orenday Serrato" <rorenday@banxico.org.mx>]

Well, to begin with, simply that they were not meant to register it there;
they have their own specific gTLD, and in abusing gTLDs like that, they
preclude other persons' rights to register in .org.

Say for example WHO.ORG; who should be entitled to that domain? The World
Health Organization (who should register under .INT), or the rock band (if
they were still playing, that is)?.

My perspective is much more about order, respecting other people's rights
and conforming to the law than just about controlling them, Professor.

Atentamente, Regards
Rodrigo Orenday Serratos



-----Mensaje original-----
De: Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
[mailto:froomkin@law.miami.edu]
Enviado el: Jueves, 10 de Octubre de 2002 04:58 PM
Para: Rodrigo Orenday Serrato
CC: 'Leah Gallegos'; 'Andy Gardner'; ga@dnso.org
Asunto: RE: [ga] Interesting WIPO ruling re: NewZealand.biz


Why is it so important to make rules and control people?  What's the
*harm* if an international organization chooses to register in .org?

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Rodrigo  Orenday Serrato wrote:

> Alright, then let's prevent international organizations from registering
in
> ..org, since that's what .int was meant for in the first place.
>
> Atentamente, Regards
> Rodrigo Orenday Serratos
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Leah Gallegos [mailto:jandl@jandl.com]
> Enviado el: Jueves, 10 de Octubre de 2002 02:20 PM
> Para: rorenday@banxico.org.mx; 'Andy Gardner'; ga@dnso.org
> Asunto: Re: [ga] Interesting WIPO ruling re: NewZealand.biz
>
>
> 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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