Eric and all, This is an interesting approach, but I see serious legal problems with it. I know eric, you are not concerned about that, but as business men/women we must be.. For instance suppose I decided to register a TM on .webfm and/or .fmweb. I am sure that you would not be happy with that as if I also decided that YOU were diluting my TM I felt you needed to pay me some money for doing so and did not want you to retain your webfm.com DN as it also might represent a dilution of my TM on .webfm... How would you feel about that?? Now are you beginning to see where this idea is a bit scary??? What do you expect some of the reactions of some famous marks like FORD, AT&T, AOL, ect are going to take this.. I assure you, many will not find it any advantage at all, nor will they give you any consideration legally either.... Eric Bickford wrote: > >So, what is wrong with .ibm, .att, .ford, .etc? > > > >Lets cede all famous names to have TLD registries, and reserve the TLD > >space for them. Then they can mount thier TLD if they want to step up > >to the reguirements of running a TLD service for themselves. > > I don't speak up on this list often, but you may have something here. > Especially with regard to the last thread on who owns the root and how > impossible it is to get ISP's to point to a different root file. This may > be 1 big piece to solving this puzzle. That is: > > Pre-register TLD's for all the big web sites, Brands, and Fortune 500 > company's in an alternate root. If nothing else, this may at least get > the attention of the trademark holder... most of whom probably know > nothing about the possiblity of new TLD's. > > It may then be possible to harvest the collective strength of trademark > holders in pressuring ISP's to point to a new root server. Or, get > company's themselves rather than ISP's to point their internal name > servers at an alternate root. > > The key here is to leverage GREED so that rather than spending effort > going to other's trying to get them on board, they come to you! > > For example, Ford Motor Company may not have ford.com and are obviously > pissed about this. Hence, they for one would DEFINITELY be interested in > grabbing the .ford tld. Short term, Ford Motor Company can use .ford > internally for communications (if they point to the new root). Long term, > they're happy because they've locked-up the .ford TLD. IMHO, thousands of > TLD's are going to happen. The question is just when? Here, we're using > the land grab GREED factor we're familiar with from the .com TLD, and > we're extending that to TLD's. If people hear they can have a company > TLD, they will be banging down the doors to "us"! > > Let's take another example. AOL would like nothing more than to have .AOL > globally resolveable. However, some unknown small company, let's say > "Automobiles Online", relizes they could have the .AOL TLD. America > Online knows this, so they may come to "us" to claim the AOL tld which > we've pre-registered for the first comer claiming ownership. > > If you notice, this idea borders on being a paradigm shift. So far we've > been thinking of adding new Generic tld's, and then company TLD's would > come later. Instead, let's think about adding company TLD's first and > generic tld's second. To get the ball rolling, just pre-register a 1000 > TLD's in a new root. I think the Press would be all over this, because > their readers can see the value. > > >I agree with Stef, it is high time we actually implemented the next step in > >the ORSC path. > > I have nothing against ICANN, but let's just forget about ICANN and go > forward. > > P.S. I know there are a ton of legal issues in the above, but what the > hell. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Eric Bickford [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Broadcasting http://webfm.com/ Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
