Re: [wg-review] [DNDEF]

[Andy Gardner <andy@navigator.co.nz>]

At 2:02 pm -0500 1/19/01, 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.

Wooh! Proctor and Gamble won't like that idea!

>  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.

What?

Can you please give me an example of a non-ICANN acredited registrar?

>Maybe there
>should be no reselling or auctioning of domain names?

What?

So if someone offers Bill Gates 22 Billion dollars for msn.com he's not
allowed to take the money?

>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.

Sounds good. You tell Proctor and Gamble that their unused names have to be
deleted tommorow. See how far you get.

-- 
Andrew P. Gardner
barcelona.com stolen, stmoritz.com stays. What's uniform about the UDRP?
We could ask ICANN to send WIPO a clue, but do they have any to spare?
Get active: http://www.domain-owners.org http://www.tldlobby.com
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