At 12:10 PM 5/6/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Mikki Barry wrote:
>
>> Although I may have misunderstood, I still say that a group who feels that
>> existing laws do not offer them enough protection should not then be able
>> to circumvent that existing law through private corporations given
>> "trusteeship" over an international resource.
>
>I think the "trademark interests" are unhappy with cybersquatting, not
>opposed to registration of free speech or other "noncommercial" domain
>names. Unfortunately I don't see any practical means of relieving
>their anxiety. As long as people are out there acquiring domain names
>for the purpose of reselling them, and "trademark interests" feel this
>hurts their business, they'll fight for rights to get the names they
>want.
Sombody seriously need to reign those folks in. They're simplu out
to het some sot og lobal trademark scheme the golder fleece of the
IP law biz.
If "Firestone" a famous mark ? Should anybody but the tire compnay get
exclusive world wide rights to it ? What about the other Firestone
brother that makes wine in the Santa Ynez valley - no small winery
either. What about Roy Firestone? What about a DNS schema (such
as the one I have in mind for .zoo) that uses the DNS as a database.
There's a little blac and white fish called Psuedoepiplatys annulatus
(the name is much bigger than the fish [1] that has a number of different
geographical populations and names colleciton points. One is called
"Firestone plantation" and it's ont inconceivable that that name might
end up as part of a domain name string.
I'm vehemently opposed to any restrictions whatsoeevr on what
you can say in a domain name. RFC 1591 says names must
be granted "no matter how ugly".
.COM today doesnt always meen "commercial" and the all the
DNS is not .com. I'm not even sure WIPOs report makes any
sense for a "pure" or strictly commercial .com and they
certainly have no place coming within miles of DNS used
for scintific organization and study.
[1] http://viewimages.killi.net/a/ANN/
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