On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:49:35PM -0500, Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote:
One way to provide protection is too allow those who have the domain portion of any domain.(com|net|org|...) to have first dibs for the domain of any new gTLD. i.e. if nanog.org, nanog.com, nanog.net, etc. would have first dibs on nanog.thisisgreatstuff.
Or is that too simplistic and fraught with division?
Oh, ick. No, it's just dumb. Could someone, anyone, anywhere, point me to *any case law in any jurisdiction whatsoever* which tends even to *suggest* that the mere purchase and deployment of a domain name *in itself* in any way constitutes infringement upon the rights of some holder of a trademark to some component of that domain name? or else shut the hell up about it, already? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin)