Robin and all,
Logically I agree with you. But on a political and legal point of view
I think this is very pacarious position if you are administering the
gTLD .umbrellas... But if you have adequate legal insurance and
a good legal firm behind you, than it is your risk to take...
The other problem I have is do you have the $$ and business plan
in place to support the gTLD's that you are administering? I would
estimate that that would take about $50m per... This can be achieved,
but my guess is that you need to be looking at an IPO in the next
6 to 8 months. To do this on just filing fees alone will end up
costing you around $250k at least, when it is all said and done,
which means that you will be out of pocket at least 10% of that
$250k.
Robin Nixon wrote:
> >> TLDNS.COM chooses not to make claims. Neither in areas where others have
> >> made claims nor in areas whhere they haven't (although our prior use
> >> reserves us that right in this latter case). Instead our vision is for an
> >> open naming system of unlimited 'TLD's - where different groups may look
> >> after different areas for easy management - but where the names belong to
> >> the Internet in general and not any single individual or organization.
> >
> >The moment you accept a registration for a domain under a TLD, you are
> >making a claim to manage that TLD, and to have the right to issue that
> >domain under that TLD. When you accept MONEY for that domain, then
> >your claim is even more clear.
>
> I still disagree - even if you are right and some claim is being made - then
> if a user registers red.umbrellas - we have not claimed umbrellas and all
> the infinite possible words that can go before it - all we would have
> claimed is red.umbrellas - the pair of words in that order at the end of a
> domain name.
>
> - Robin.
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