From: Jon Zittrain:
(....)
> The best way to make the entrepreneurial squabbles dissipate would be
> *tons* of new TLDs. Make them so common that one could find any ending
on
> a domain name string and the worries over who gets to register what may
> fade. It'd leave only the issue of domain name portability: after all,
> amazon.com wouldn't be satisfied moving to amazon.biz if, once their
lease
> was up on amazon.com, they were told it'd be $50,000 to renew it! And it
> would cause an uproar among some of the trademark interests. ...JZ
I would argue that the trademark concerns should have no more authority to
restrict the establishment of new TLDs than they have to restrict the
establishment of new magazines or newspapers or broadcasting stations or
any other resource where additional infringements of the mark might occur.
There is no other media in which they have such a right.
Diane Cabell
http://www.mama-tech.com
Fausett, Gaeta & Lund
Boston
