Re: [wg-c] Schwimmer Post From Last Week

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

I personally find TLDs that have a defined purpose to be a waste of time.

First off, does anybody seriously believe that the law of trade and
service marks would allow there to be TLDs in which a mark holder would be
allowed, at no risk to his/her mark, to *not* inquire whether a given
character string was being used to infringe?

Secondly, defined TLDs fail to recognize the Protean characteristics of
modern life.  Is Deloitte and Touch a .CPA or a .GMBH or a .CONSULTANT or
what?  And should the next Yahoo be stuck in .ANON simply because the two
students who were playing around started there?

To my mind purposed TLD's is like purposed marks -- like saying that
people who make household cleaning products must name their products
things like "Tide Household" and "Comet Household".

Third, who is going to be the policeman and who is going to be the
judge/jury?  We've seen the failure of policing even something as simple
as .edu.  (And are universities that sell patent rights really solely
.edu?)

		--karl--