Short answer: Tucows has no official comment on this.
Longer answer: A subsidiary of Tucows has been created to act as a technical
services provider to a number of Registries. This subsidiary does not create
or enforce policy, rather it creates and manages technical systems critical
to registry operations. The various policies in place by these Registries
may or may not be coincidental to with Tucows Registrar position on these
and other issues.
Clearer answer: It would be inappropriate for this new subsidiary to
criticize or comment on the policies of any of it's customers. Asking for
official comment on this matter is similar to asking for public comment on
the TOS of one of our Resellers. We will be making a few announcements that
will certainly clarify around these issues over the coming weeks and I will
be happy to engage in a dialog explaining these statements further at such
time...
-rwr
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< Subject: FW: [DOMAIN-POLICY] Sunrise at .info
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< What's the official TuCows comment on this?
<
< Alex
<
< -----Original Message-----
< From: Michael Sondow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
< Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 17:00
< To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
< Subject: [DOMAIN-POLICY] Sunrise at .info
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< Tom Barrett - CEO Netnames
<
< ICANN has selected dot-info as the next unrestricted generic
< top-level domain. Open
< registrations are expected to begin in the second quarter of 2001.
<
< In an attempt to minimize abusive domain name registrations,
< Afilias, the dot-info Registry,
< will employ a Sunrise Period to allow qualified trademark owners to
< register their mark as a
< domain name through participating ICANN registrars. This period will
< begin approximately 90
< days before the start of the open registration period.
<
< During this Sunrise Period, the owner of any valid registered
< trademark or service mark having
< national effect (explicit inclusion of EU marks and exclusion of US
< state registrations) that
< issued prior to October 2, 2000 will be eligible to register a
< domain name that is identical to
< its mark, using ASCII characters only.
<
< The dot-info Registry will not provide preferential treatment among
< competing trademark owners
< that have a registration for the same mark. Thus, the procedure is
< first-come first-serve for
< multiple owners of identical marks (i.e. United for goods Airlines
< and UNITED for goods Moving
< Services) Moreover, the Registry will not be accepting
< pre-registrations of domain names for
< this Sunrise Period. Because the registry will be employing an
< equitable allocation process
< among participating registrars, potential registrants should
< carefully analyze any claims by a
< registrar offering priority placement in the registration queue.
<
< The Sunrise registration will be for an initial term of five years.
< Sunrise applicants must
< provide the trademark serial number, jurisdiction or country of
< registration and date of
< trademark registration with each submitted sunrise registration.
<
< The Sunrise Program is broken down into the following three periods:
<
< Announcement Period: This announcement period will last for a
< minimum of thirty (30) days,
< although it can be extended. However, under no circumstance will the
< registration period begin
< until the trademark community has had at least 30 days public
< notice.
<
< Registration Period: Following the announcement period and at least
< sixty (60) days prior to
< the TLD being added to the root server system, Afilias will begin
< the registration period.
< During this time it will begin processing domain name registrations
< among eligible trademark
< owners through ICANN accredited registrars. This registration period
< is scheduled to last for a
< minimum of thirty (30) days.
<
< Cooling Off Period: After the registration period, there will be a
< minimum thirty (30) day
< cooling off period in which trademark owners will have the
< opportunity to investigate any fraud
< by domain name registrants and initiate a challenge.
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