Roberto Gaetano a �crit:
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> Trademark TLDs?!? What are you talking about?
>From a message a few days ago on the IFWP list:
"CORE of Geneva, Switzerland, filed on March 8, 1999 trademark
application No. 75-655804 for domain registry services in the U.S.
for the Top Level Domain ".INFO"
http://trademarks.uspto.gov/cgibin/ifetch4?ENG+PEND+3+941840+0+0+8021+F+3+141+1+MS%2finfo
along with applications filed the same day for .REC, .WEB, .SHOP,
.FIRM, and .NOM."
> And anyway, even if somebody (like Jay Fenello, for instance) would
> trademark a TLD (.per, in the example), how would this affect the > assignment to a
>different Registry of a different TLD?
This is an argument without logical coherence. We're not talking
about "other TLDs", but about those being trademarked, which are
obviously very desirable ones. The trademarking of TLDs is no
different in essence from the cybersquatting of SLDs. It is quite
simply a monopolistic, anticompetitive practice, for the purpose of
price-gouging. Is this how CORE leads the fight against the NSI
monopoly: by creating its own?
> (My company, ETSI, is a member of CORE - for the time being, I am the
> representative of my company in CORE - on 1999-06-30 I will quit ETSI > to work for
>a company that is not member of CORE, and not even > interested in domain name
>registration, and therefore starting > 1999-07-01 I will have no affiliation
>whatsoever with CORE)
Getting out in the nick of time, eh, Roberto? Before ETSI becomes
actionable along with the rest of CORE?
