Re: [wg-review] [DNDEF]

[Derek Conant <dconant@dnsga.org>]

I must now leave for DC.  I will respond in more detail to this matter later, however, I
understand your point of view and appreciate your response.

Eric Dierker wrote:

> I vehemently disagree and here are some of the reasons why;
> I register eric.com, I then work very hard to build a Web portal with a great revenue
> stream using eric.com.  Along comes retirement age, Mr. Megabucks says "Mr. eric I don't
> like your site but I love the branding and marketing of eric.com".  He then offers me one
> gazillion $s for my domain name.  Now you tell me I CANN'T sell my rights to eric.com for
> more than the registration fee.
>
> A non-representative monopolistic quasi-governmental corporation that spends more on
> lawyers than translations is one thing.  Giving it more power over e-commerce is another.
>
> As far as intent goes, the intentions of contributors to ICANN, DNSO administration is
> transparently in favor of giving registrars more control over making more money, yet I do
> not hear that as grounds to take away their rights.
>
> If your statement was not made 100% on behalf of the registrars constituency then I
> suggest someone has been severely manipulated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Derek Conant wrote:
>
> > My suggestion regarding the subject matter is that ICANN Accredited Registrars should
> > be the only ones authorized to sell or resell (or register) domain names (.com, .net,
> > .org and new gTLDs).  This may solve a lot of the problems being discussed here
> > regarding auctions and trade names and trademarks.  Domain names should not be
> > auctioned and/or resold for more than the average registration costs.  To auction a
> > domain name appears to be by its very nature a bad faith contributor to the trade
> > name and/or trademark infringement argument.
> >
> > ICANN Accredited Registrars are far easier to control than non-ICANN Accredited
> > Registrars.  There are so many ICANN Accredited Registrars now, it will do good to
> > limit domain name registrations to only ICANN Accredited Registrars. Maybe there
> > should be no reselling or auctioning of domain names?  A registrant uses the domain
> > name or shows intended use or else the domain name is released back to the public
> > domain and available for registration through any ICANN Accredited Registrar.
> >
> > Sotiropoulos wrote:
> >
> > > 1/19/01 3:37:25 PM, "Philip Sheppard" <philip.sheppard@aim.be> wrote:
> > >
> > > >My suggestion for a common point of agreement stands:
> > > >"what is important is the intent of the domain name holder. Are they in good
> > > >faith or bad faith? Do they seek fair DNS presence or do they seek to
> > > >pretend to be what they are not?"
> > >
> > > What about in cases of a trademark on a generic term, and a domain
> > > registration of said generic term, where the registrant of the domain puts it up
> > > for auction to the first bidder that meets their price threshold?   Is this "good
> > > faith" or "bad faith"?  As I pointed out in an earlier post, the terms "flu" and
> > > "headache" are trademarked, and not by P&G.  Is it ok for P&G to engage in
> > > selling such domains in an after market situation?
> > >
> > >
> > > Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> > >           Hermes Network, Inc.
> > >
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