Roeland Meyer wrote:
>They clearly intend to place a priori restrictions on new Top Level Domain
>(TLD) names. All of this in the interests of protecting trademark owners.
Trade mark owners don't necessarily benefit by these measures - indeed for every trade
mark owner who does, there is usually another, or others who loses out. Prince
Sportwear, for example invoked the NSI policy against Prince plc, to try to get
prince.com, which succeeded in the first instance because Prince plc did not have a
registered trade mark. However, as Prince plc had goodwill in the name they were able
to get an injunction (in England) and keep their domain name.
The point of this is that one of them was always doomed to lose out. They are both
businesses with interests in a particular trade mark. This battle is not, as it is
constantly being characterised on this list, just about business v. individual user.
