Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
And no, companies *aren't* "forced to pay for another domain name" just because a new TLD appears -- they aren't doing it *now*
Oh yes we are brandon
Ah, but some are ... for trademark or brand protection usually. I know _one_ company that paid $140k just for domain names related to a rebranding effort. /TJ -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Butterworth [mailto:brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:59 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
And no, companies *aren't* "forced to pay for another domain name" just because a new TLD appears -- they aren't doing it *now*
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:48:08PM -0400, TJ wrote:
Ah, but some are ... for trademark or brand protection usually.
But most trademark holders aren't *entitled* to that much protection: unless they do business worldwide, *and* have a "famous" mark. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer +-Internetworking------+---------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA +-http://bestpractices.wikia.com-+ +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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