RE: [wg-review] 11. IDNH Vote now - all those in favor

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: Sotiropoulos [mailto:sotiris@hermesnetwork.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 12:48 PM

> But isn't it censorship when a third party decides what 
> should be put on the "space" initially formulated by somebody 
> else?  if someone tells you that 
> although you were the first to understand the importance of 
> the Internet for your business purposes (say 4 years ago), 
> and you formulated a previously 
> unformulated domain name, what gives the johnny-come-latelys 
> any rights to dictate what should be done with "your" 
> formulation?  This is the issue, and 
> I'm not misunderstanding it, perhaps you are (I don't know).

I might point out the following facts;
MHSC.NET and MHSC.COM are wholly owned by MHSC aka The Morgan Hill Software
Company, Inc. (A Delaware corporation). Whereas, MHSC.ORG is owned by
someone else, doing an entirely different business. Occasionally, I get mail
for MHSC.ORG, but that's a rare occurance. Neither of us have minded the
congruence, since 1995, nor has it caused much confusion.

DNSO.ORG is run by the ICANN/DNSO and was donated to /ICANN by Amadeu Abril
y Abril.
DNSO.NET is owned and operated by MHSC (see above). I control all content
therein.
DNSO.COM is owned by Richard Sexton. It is a parody site.
All the DNSO sites were instantiated within months of each other. All of
them pre-date the formation of the /ICANN/DNSO.

All of the above are at-risk to UDRP. No one has yet filed complaint
because, [I like to think] no one sees an issue. All of us have common-law
marks with these sites.
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