Re: [wg-c] Choosing the intial testbed

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Milton,

The context of my post is GENERIC TLDs and the potential testbed. I don't
undertsant how any trademarked string fits with the context of GENERIC.

OWNERSHIP is exactly what I am conserned with applying to GENERIC TLDs

.imb. is certanly not GENERIC.

regards,

-rick

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Milton Mueller wrote:

> 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.
> 
>