Re: [IFWP] Fwd: Re: Power Politics and the New Internet Order

[Bill Lovell]

At 05:22 PM 4/1/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Gregbo and all,
>
>Greg Skinner wrote:
>
>> "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Furthermore, my guess is that if people start registering TLDs as trademarks
>> en masse, eventually we will have the root(s) filled with .ibm, .att,
>> .yahoo, etc.
>
> I seriously doubt this.  Why?  Well the answer is simple.  Many
>of these that you mention here, .Yahoo and .IBM would be refused
>TM's for obvious reasons, as will many others...

Um, IBM and Yahoo already have trademarks. One does not "trademark"
a domain name any more than one trademarks the pencil and paper with
which the trademark name is written down, this computer screen on
which this deathless prose is being written, or that box-like thing in
my living room from which emits almost as much endless nonsense
as . . . oh, pardon me.  Anyway, a domain name (TLD or otherwise) is 
one way among many of setting out one's trademark, and the fact that
it also serves as routing code doesn't change that.

Bill Lovell
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