Well, a main issue is to block the use of that same TLD in the Public
ICANN (TM) ROOT. Once TM oewnership of he rights to use the name as a
Private TLD are in place, then the issue is whetehr or not TM law
segments between PRIVATE or PUBLIC use in commenrce on the Internet.
My bet is that TM law has no concept fo the issue.
Cheers...\Stef
>From your message Mon, 01 Mar 1999 17:32:29 -0800 (PST):
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}
}On 02-Mar-99 Einar Stefferud wrote:
}> I think the best move for us to take is to just start using the
}> Trademarking of Private and Prospective TLDs and be done with it. It
}> is a silly thing to try to use qas a hammer to get ICAN to back off.
}> They do not listen to or respond to threats! They react to real live
}> action. And since this nice TM avenue is just sitting there waiting
}> to be used, lets just go for it!
}>
}> Can we use the ORSC staging root so show that TLD names have in fact
}> been put in commerce?
}>
}> Cheers...\Stef
}
}I really don't think it could work. The trademark could be made as only
}applying the naming of hosts within the private networks using those
}nameservers, and it could be argued (quite convincingly) that this would not
}apply outside those networks, since a government sanctioned process is underway
}to determine the infrastructure for naming of hosts on the generally connected
}internet.
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