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
