RE: [ga] Stolen domains, transfers, WHOIS, audit trails, andsystemintegrity

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

No, I'm afraid that what we have here is naive optimism.

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Johnson, David wrote:

> No one thinks we should give commercial interests (or governments)
"ownership" over all
> uses of a "short catchy" word or name. 

Plenty of folks active in ICANN and WIPO advocate things that are
functionally equivalent to this.  Since many of them are very smart, I
believe that this is in fact what they believe.  

A few of them are honest enough to say so directly.  Have a look at WIPO
expert and frequent committee member Fredrick Mostert's book on famous and
well-known marks -- keeping in mind just how big the category of
"well-known" marks is.

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