Re: [ga] NewZealand.com WIPO decision

[Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca>]

ummmmmmm perhaps your principles of international law and public 
interest are different from the ones I am familiar.
Can you point me to some sources or citations for these assertions?

Rodrigo Orenday Serrato wrote:

>Notwithstanding this decision, I still sustain that the naming of Sovereign
>States is a matter of public international law and public interest, and that
>no one but a State should be allowed to use neither its official
>denomination nor its common name, absent other characters capable of making
>it sufficiently distinctive.
>
>Atentamente, Regards
>Rodrigo Orenday Serratos
>
>
>-----Mensaje original-----
>De: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]En nombre de Marc
>Schneiders
>Enviado el: Jueves, 19 de Diciembre de 2002 03:35 PM
>Para: Steven Heath
>CC: ga@dnso.org
>Asunto: RE: [ga] NewZealand.com WIPO decision
>
>
>On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, at 09:27 [=GMT+1300], Steven Heath wrote:
>
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>
>>Even more interesting to read the BNA Law summary of the decision:
>>
>>Further, the panel termed the action "baseless" and "misconceived"
>>as it unanimously found that the government engaged in reverse domain name
>>hijacking in bringing the action."
>>    
>>
>
>Congratulations to the NZ government. I don't think any other government
>has been declared to be a domain name hijacker. (The decision occurs very
>rarely and governments/city councils tend to win.) A Book of Records entry
>for the country named after a province in mine!
>
>The fact that the NZ government did file the complaint, shows that even
>among those elected by the people, attempting theft is not a big deal. Or
>is it that the UDRP, as applied, is succeeding in misleading good
>politicians into believing Everything Trademark Lawyers Dream of When They
>Do Not Have a Nightmare?
>
>Is there any progress to report about the pending review of the UDRP by
>ICANN, due for end 2000?
>
>Will the evaluation of new gTLDs also take so long to get going? I hope
>not.
>
>There are some facts we best ignore, right?
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