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[comments-wgb] ICANN has no mandate for the Sunrise +20 rule
Please stop this lunacy and get back to the
mandate and U.S. Constitution!
ICANN has gone far beyond its scope with the Sunrise +20
proposal. We have too much regulation as it is. Moreover, ICANN and
NSI seem to be in collusion to keep big business and politicians in place and
squash (literally) the mom and pop entrepreneurial business. The Internet
was meant to be a place of freedom, worldwide opportunity for business and
education/information. ICANN apparently seeks to destroy this concept by
literally giving big business (or those with the resources to pursue it)
any possible variation of domain names they want. The Sunrise +20 could
conceivably represent a combination of 20 million names, substantially leaving
out the majority of the world for "viable names." ICANN does not have the
moral, ethical or legal mandate to put into place or enforce this arbitrary
rule. I have every hope that the public does everything in its power to
force a rejection of this lunacy.
We have perfectly good trademark laws to protect
entities. We don't need to pre-empt them, nor do we have the right to do
this.
I propose that the board disband, since there is no
possible way that those with a vested interest in the Sunrise +20, or any other
protective measure can fairly institute or fashion any such proposal. I,
for one, would support an entity to challange any such rule in the courts - all
the way to the Supreme Court. I would hope that Internet users from all
the countries in the world would do the same, since they, also, stand to be
excluded in the same fashion as the mega corporations and trademark
attorneys.
I would hate to think that my domain names could be taken
from me even though I have had them for years. One of those names (not the
domain name) has been in use since 1983; the other since 1989. I would
hate to see it wrenched from me because some mega corporation decided its name
was more important than mine. In addition, if decided I wanted to exercise
my right to free speech and free enterprise in the U.S. and create a domain for
complaints against xyzcompany and registered xyzcompanyNOT.com. That
should be my right. The sunrise rule would preclude the world from
registering millions of names because they lack the clout. Where are the
constitutional law attorneys? I find it extraordinary that it has been
allowed to progress this far.
ICANN, stop this lunacy. The rest of the world does
not want "big brother" watching us. I have noticed that most of the
support mail in this forum is from the mega corps and trademark groups and
attorneys. What does that say about bias???
Leah Gallegos
Creative CompuSec
Virginia Beach, VA
757-631-9838