Bill, > When > you (or ICANN, NTIA, UNESCO, NAACP, NFL or whoever) agrees that Sam > down the street gets the TLD .sam, then bully for him, but whatever > relationship that may have with Sam's real business and whatever its > trademarks may be would be quite nebulous. > What with that Sheriff's auction coming up in Herndon, might an open letter (from IFWP??) to Umbro be in order? We could point out that they stand to gain a lot of goodwill by precedent-setting *renunciation of 'their' DN, compared to the few sales that they may make by falling in with the 'names-are-property' crowd, just to cater to folks who 'have a right' to find sporty goods at the end of the Umbro. kerry
