RE: [wg-c] Straw Vote

["Martin B. Schwimmer" <martys@interport.net>]

Yes, search engines make it easy to know that your mark may have been
infringed upon or diluted, but the number of new unrestricted unchartered
TLDs potentially increases the number of times your mark may be potentially
infringed upon or diluted.  As not all 275 (are there that many?) TLDs are
open, and not all have suffixes which will be readily recognizable to the
public as designating potnetial commercial use (as would .shop, .firm,
.web, .info), the 275 number is not probative that another 275 won't change
the status quo.

And btw, closed TLDs with country code suffixes still cause problems
(witness aol.com.br and amazon.gr).

At 05:30 PM 8/16/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 4:11 PM -0400 8/16/99, Cohen, Tod wrote:
>>I agree with Joan that this should be our position and continue to be our
>>position.  We all agree that new gTLDs would be nice but there is no current
>>need other than to force trademark holders to engage in the same silliness
>>again.
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>Why should the number of TLDs matter given the easy use and availability of
>search engines?  A trademark holder can easily police their marks against
>infringement regardless of the number of TLDs. There are already over 275
>TLDs operational at present.  There is definitely a serious current need
>for more TLDs especially for trademark holders who were unlucky enough to
>attempt to register a name someone else has a legitimate and good-faith use
>for.
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