William X. Walsh wrote
> I am not saying Trademark holders should be excluded from the process, far from
>MUST have constituency based membership) in the broader General Business class
>of membership. They would then be represented more in line with their
>proportion in the commerce areas.
I do not disagree with the idea that trade mark holders should be represented as part
of the business community that they are. However, it seems to me that they are in
danger of being demonised here. All businesses use trade marks (registered or
unregistered): trade mark holders are not a subset of businesses with a strange
agenda. Most substantial businesses have encountered opportunists registering domain
names on spec and then offering them to the business concerned at a huge premium.
The problem is that in the current situation, whoever owns a particular domain name
particularly a .com domain name has something that is increasingly valuable to a
business with that name. There may be many who could claim a reasonable connection
with it globally, but only one person or business gets it. This problem must have a
technical solution - it is after basically a technical problem caused by the way the
internet works.
Clare Wardle
My views are my own and not necessarily those of my employer or colleagues.
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