----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Swerve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [TLDA-Members] Fwd: BulkRegister partners with New.Net
> > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Well known fact is that New.net is profitable. > > "New.net Continues Growth, Diversifies Product Offerings And Reaches > > Profitability as Internet Naming Industry and ICANN Falter" > > http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=156973&TICK=NEWN&STO > > RY=/www/story/06-17-2002/0001748590&EDATE=Jun+17,+2002 > > wel i dont; know - thats PR - public relations and i don't trust PR. I > rmember they let go some people not so long ago and downsized > considerably. does anyone remember that. Downsizing is a way to get profitable. > > Nobody can claim to have exclusive rights to a TLD. > > I could open a .God registry tomorrow, legally. > > of course you can and no you can't. in fact if you do this transmission > not only proves civil liability but possibly intent to malice and that > would place you in criminal court for the illegal appropriation of our > namespace. "Our namespace"? How can you say this? How is your namespace protected? A ".GOD" trademark won't help you. > of course this did not happen. his barrister spoke with our barrister, > mr. goolnik was advised warned and counciled, and the illegal .god domain > sales came to an end. our legals were even used by the ftc to develop a > case against mr. goolnik. And the only thing Goolnik was fined for is that he didn't made it pretty clear that his domain names do not work (at the moment), like VeriSigns IDNs didn't worked when they offered it. He wasn't fined for offering .GOD domain names. Some other companies (DomainIsland,..) wanted to sue New.net because the "duplicated" some of their TLDs (.shop,...). Haven't heard that they were successful. regards
