On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 09:01:44PM -0500, Mikki Barry wrote:
>
> Again, "use" in the legal sense is NOT mere registration, and this point
> has been hammered home over and over in US cases.
If what you say is true, then my opinion, this is simply a case where
the law has not caught up with the facts. Clearly, blocking someone
else from using a name is a use in itself. And in general, one
doesn't generally expend the time and effort to register a domain
name for no purpose whatsoever, and indeed, if does register a domain
name for no use whatsoever, then one has no real cause for objection
if the name is given to another. The only interesting case is where
different legal uses conflict -- as, to use your favorite example, when
a domain name is used as a form of protected expression.
Or do you believe that using a domain name for expressive purposes
does not constitute "use" in the legal sense?
> Wonderful! I guess this means that we don't need any of these pre-emptive
> registration impediments for technical reasons. So why are we arguing
> about it at all? I only regret it's taken so long to get to this point.
Good. You can go home now.
--
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