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

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

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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