RE: [wg-c] "Public" resources -Reply

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

My understanding of the law, and I am very sure one of the lawyers will
correct me if I'm wrong, says htat a trademark holder, if they should
decide to stop using a trademarked TLD, can actually prevent ANYONE else
from taking up the reigns of that tmTLD without explicit permission.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wg-c@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-c@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
> Milton Mueller
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 8:25 PM
> To: Anthony Lupo
> Cc: william@dso.net; ross@ebarn.com; cambler@iodesign.com;
> wg-c@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-c] "Public" resources -Reply
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> Anthony Lupo wrote:
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> > I see a potential problem with this approach.  Yahoo or any other
> > trademark owner will not enter into any agreement where they
> > could potentially lose control over their mark merely because they
> > want to abandon the project because of the economics.
>
> Well then, maybe they would just choose not to operate a TLD?
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