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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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)
