does that include trademark holders? ie: yahoo.com will have to give up
yahoo.org because it isn't a non profit orginization?
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On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Swerve wrote:
> Does opensrs have a position about the possible deletion of .org domains
> already held by individuals or corporations, if they do not meet Icann's
> non-profit requirements?
>
> Icann dropped this ball years ago when they did not prevent Netsol from
> allowing anyone from registering .orgs.
>
> Imo, the obvious solution is a new tld, under .nnp or something like that.
>
> Anyone a lawyer here that is familiar with class action suits? (v.s. Icann.)
> Are the people running Icann doing bad acid?
>
> swerve
>
> here's some info and links.
> this one is from
> http://www.icann.org/melbourne/proposed-verisign-agreements-topic.htm
>
> "In addition, VeriSign would establish an endowment of $5 million for the
> purpose of funding the reasonable operating expenses of a global registry
> for the specific use of non-profit organizations, and would make global
> resolution resources available to the operator of the .org registry for no
> charge for one year and on terms to be determined thereafter, for so long as
> it operates the .com registry.
>
> READ THIS The net result of this would be a .org registry returned, after
> some appropriate transition period, to its originally intended function as a
> registry operated by and for non-profit organizations."
>
> There is no info. about protecting existing .org holders who do not qualify
> as non-profit orgs.
>
> Here's a forum on Icann's website.
>
> http://forum.icann.org/nsi2001/
>
