Karl and all,
You hit the nail on the head here Karl. This has been par of what
we have been warning folks about for some time and have tried
to diswage. But it looks like WIPO and the TM gang have won
this round, and the DN owner and possibly future DN owners
are in for some real problem in the short term at any rate.
The more sad part of the ICANN DNSO decision is that it is
anti-competitive and there may be a law suit there somewhere,
but as Bill Lovell put it you will need lots of litigants to make the
case, and they will need to be in for the long haul. It appears
to me anyway that pgMedia was right from the beginning, even
before ICANN was in existence.
Karl Auerbach wrote:
> > > For any "constituency" there is an opposite.
> >
> > This is a metaphysical claim. It has no relation to reality. The
> > reality is that political relationships are very much more
> > complicated.
>
> Nonesense. The DNSO has presumed and empowered constituencies for
> trademark owners yet ignorred the fact that there are those who use names
> in those vast areas in which trademarks do not run.
>
> The DNSO has similarly presumed and empowered constituncies for registries
> and ignorred the fact that there are those who use the service of those
> registries and whose interests are often in opposition to the registries.
>
> What has happened is that focused interest groups have demonstrated the
> fact that focused, small groups tend to win over less focused interests.
>
> And many people have simply not turned on their brains to realize that by
> allowing such easy definitions to prevail that they are simply handing
> core parts of the Internet over to self-interested businesses.
>
> --karl--
Regards,
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Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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