Re: [wg-c] A branded TLD would be .nsi

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.com>]

I find that I, too, agree with these points.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>
To: <wg-c@dnso.org>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [wg-c] A branded TLD would be .nsi


>
>
> Martin B. Schwimmer wrote:
>
> > 1.  Whether .com is today a trademark of NSI;
> >
> > 2.  Whether .web is today a trademark of CORE or IOD or no one;
> >
> > 3.  Whether TLD suffixes can theoretically function as trademarks;
> >
> > 4.  Whether TLD suffixes should as a matter of DNS policy be allowed to
> > function as trademarks.
> >
> > The easiest question is no. 3, because it is certainly possible to posit
a
> > set of facts where a TLD suffix functions as a TM (the easiest being to
> > take an existing TM - .mci, the other being taking an arbitrary term,
.xyz,
> > and ICANN or whoever decrees that only X can be the register/registrar
of
> > .xyz).
>
> agree.
>
> > Questions 1 and 2 are mixed questions of law and fact I leave for the
courts.
>
> agree.
>
> > Question 4 is not really a TM question but a DNS policy question and I
> > refrain from putting in an opinion.
>
> agree.
>