Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

[Gene Marsh]

Hi Diane Cabell, you wrote on 7/5/99 11:17:27 PM:

>
> >A proposed solution to the "cybersquatting" problem Mr. Crispin raised
>(one
> >person registering tons of generic words and jacking up the price for
>the
> >"real" users).  This is the solution that some ccTLDs have used.
>
> There are laws to deal with this... there are laws to deal with this...
> there are laws to deal with this... this is a recording.
>
>There are no laws to prevent one person from amassing 200 un-trademarked
>generic domain names which was the scenario presented in the discussion.
>The discussion, as I understand it, concerns whether or not there should
>be.
>dc
>

OK, here you have a point.  For example, see www.extreme.com.

Still, I wonder whether we are indignant from the unfairness of it or out
of jealousy.



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