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Re: [wg-b] www.bye-bye-aol.com



At 12:25 29/11/99 -0500, Judith Oppenheimer wrote:
>Below is an August '98 Businesswire release put out by US
>Xchange for its www.bye-bye-aol.com site and service.  I'm
>curious how the group feels about this use of the AOL name
>in the domain name of an AOL competitor etc. ...
>

Judith and all,

There are countries with hard-fought legislation against comparative
advertising.
Such legislation covers famous and not-so-famous equally.

DNS regulation should never be a shortcut to achieve selectively what
cannot be achieved in an even-handed way.

--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  , bootstrap  of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org  (or direct:) 
http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/