26 Jun
2008
26 Jun
'08
7:17 p.m.
On Jun 26, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
And no, companies *aren't* "forced to pay for another domain name" just because a new TLD appears -- they aren't doing it *now*, by and large, and thank ghod:
The last time I looked there were a few thousand companies protecting their intellectual property by using companies like Mark Monitor to insure that they had defensive registrations in all ccTLD's possible.
-M<
Whether some choose to do that or not, I believe that the point is that: 1. Nobody is FORCING them to do so. 2. Most are _NOT_ doing so. 3. It is somewhat anti-social to do so, but, that has rarely been a constraint on corporate greed, especially amongst the Intelectual Property crowd. Owen