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

[William X. Walsh]

On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 01:06:33 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> >Having only one domain name per comany (plus some other restrictions)
>> >has worked rather well in Norway to prevent cybersquatting.
>> 
>> Thats one way to do it - at the expense of personal freedoms.
>> New Zealand has also eliminated cybersquatting, without the
>> onerous dark side.
>
>You are of course free to consider the Norwegian policy that way.
>Fortunately, a lot of the people who register domain names in Norway
>seem to disagree with you.
>
>That being said, the Norwegian domain name policy is undergoing change,
>and will probably be somewhat liberalized (ie. more than one domain
>name per organization). There will still be several safeguards to
>prevent cybersquatting.
>

The fact that they register names doesn't imply that they agree with
your policy.

So with that in mind, I'd like to know how you gauged their agreement?



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William X. Walsh
General Manager, DSo Internet Services
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"The fact is that domain names are new and have unique
characteristics, and their status under the law is not yet clear." 
--Kent Crispin (June 29th, 1999)