Re[2]: Brands, TLDs, and Private Ownership (Was:Re: [wg-c] GTLD Stra w poll)

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

Wednesday, August 18, 1999, 8:45:29 AM, Cade,Marilyn S - LGA <mcade@att.com> wrote:

> I reread the two postings below -- I don't believe that it is true "that any
> large company" would jump at the chance to have their brand as a TLD.  I
> can't invision a world of online communications where large companies
> "operated" TLDs for commercial purposes... that would mean that companies
> would be competing with each other to "host" their down stream business
> customers; if you used both BT and AT&T, and Microsoft, and IBM, and CISCO,
> you would a) chose one b)register in all? 

I doubt this would be an issue if the contractual rules that have been
discussed were implemented.  If the company knew that should they fail
to meet their obligations, or otherwise because unable or unwilling to
operate the registry, that the TLD (regardless of the string) and ALL
related IP (such as the whois database) revert to ICANN for assignment
to a third party.

I doubt Microsoft or AT&T or IBM or any of the others would have much
interest in operating a TLD of their company name under those terms.

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