At 10:04 AM 2/27/99 +0000, you wrote:
>At 16:26 26/02/99 +0000, Jeff wrote:
>>
>> I have had several ISP register Domains for me and I ALWAYS
>>ask what time date the registration was made and to notify me of that
>>registration via E-Mail. This is not a reasonable excuse Susan.
>>WRONG ANSWER here!
>
>So what counts as the actual creation date, then? The day I submit the
>template to InterNIC, or the date that the domain is active on the root
>servers and visible in the whois database? I know the first with certainty,
>simply by looking in my outbox. But I don't have any way to prove the
>second - and it's the actual registration date that counts, not the date of
>the request.
>
If someone wished to register a service mark, that mark either being the
domain name or being included somewhere in the home page, the date
that Joe Blow consumer could first have brought up the home page would
be the date the mark was first used in commerce, which is necessary
for the service mark registration, hence it is indeed the "second" date above
that counts, not the day one sent off the request.
Bill Lovell
