Re: [wg-c] Choosing the intial testbed

["Milton Mueller" <mueller@syr.edu>]

This debate just gets weirder and weirder. ICANN have just spent the last
two years making the world safe for trademark owners in the SLD space, and
now the geniuses in this WG say that when a string moves from one level of
DNS to the other it magically changes all its properties and becomes
untrademarkable.

Why wouldn't this maxim apply to the SLD space? Those of you who are
concerned about the horrors of "ownership" of domain names, just what do you
think is occurring when courts of law and UDRP "arbitrators" take
registrations away from one person and give them to another on the basis of
trademark claims?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick H Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>
>
> a simple constraint for gTLD my be that they are *not* trademarkable for
> the purpose of being a gTLD.