On Jun 19, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >> I would guess that most of these are going to be purchased simply to >> prevent someone else from getting them > I would agree with this part.
I suspect you underestimate the desires and power of marketing folks at larger organizations. > Adding gtlds and opening up the root to brands effectively requires > TM holders to register/bid to protect their TM rights. Not really. You might want to search on "trademark" in http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/rfp-clean-30may11-en.pdf. There has been a tremendous amount of traffic on that particular issue and that is reflected in the Applicant Guidebook. > It will be even > more interesting if ICANN looses and has to roll back brand delegations > it has made. Really, if you're going to opine on the disasters that will befall ICANN as a result of the new gTLD program, you might want to actually read what that program does and doesn't do. Really. Regards, -drc
