As far as i know. opensrs has not applied to be a registrar. i believe
they are offering software solutions to potential registrars. I would
bioHazard a guess that opensrs will offer new domains that are not in the
restricted categories. Of course, it's still a few weeks away from the
announcement, and it looks like things smell pretty fishy with some of the
info filtering out of Icann. Personally, i think the whole scenario stinks
like rotting meat. My guess is a few very large corporations will be the
ones who profit the most from these new .tlds. And yes, they have all been
having verbal intercourse with the WIPO lawyers, so we'll most likely see
trademark holders getting first kick at domains. Yippee Yahoo. Check out
the u.s. trademark database,... you'll find huge numbers of everyday single
words that are trademarked. Words like Love. Words like Sex. As far as
trademark concepts go, this isn't so crazy, because they have very specific
mandates,
BUT, if the WIPO lawyers force a sunrise scenario, then the trademark
holders of Love and Sex, and probably any single word you can think of, may
scoop them before your automated scripting engine tries to pound the entry
points.
I've expressed my opinion about this before, but i think a high level of
vigilance needs to be practiced by anyone interested in free speech, free
enterprise,...etc. As far as i am concerned, Yahoo and Amazon have no
special rights to those words, beyond specific uses that should be clearly
outlined in their trademarks. Yahoo has been a word used in Canadian
culture way before the Yahoo corporation rode the Internet portal wave.
Amazon is a river. It will keep flowing whether the Nasdaq hits 40,000 or
goes up in a puff of digital smoke.
So, i say Yahoo! It's a word,... not a corporation.
swerve
> From: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: WXWeb Services
> Reply-To: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 16:01:15 -0800
> To: Florian Effenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: .web, .nom, .shop, ...
>
> Hello Florian,
>
> Saturday, November 04, 2000, 3:02:54 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>
>> has OpenSRS already applied for .web, .nom, .shop, ... ?
>
> New TLDs have not yet been approved. You are probably thinking of the
> failed CORE "7 new domains" that they tried to get in years ago.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
