Mark and all, Yes this is a pre-emptive fiat of sorts. But it is a step in the right direction, as it allows for the market to correct to an extent, itself. That represents good self regulation in this instance. Nice work here finally ICANN! >;) We at INEGroup support this type of market self regulation. We do however have some serious doubts that specifically, "Register.com" can and will be successful in this new service. We shall be monitoring their progress closely in this specific effort. We also note that just this week that Register.com has in effect for one of its clients stole a domain, races.com from it's proper registrant in a transfer fiasco that has been carried on the Domain-Policy list this week. Should Register.com choose to do so it could use this newly announced service to accomplish more of the same and create a larger problem than it has made thus far on occasion. Due to the lack of apparent oversight from the NTIA and ICANN "Officials" such inconsistencies that cause damage to the rightful registrant will likely increase unless the NTIA exercises proper and warranted oversight. This has yet to be seen in the ICANN process to date however. Mark C. Langston wrote: > According to http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/99/140785.html > registre.com will now automatically register a domain name in over > 260 TLDs at once for TM holders willing to pay the fee. > > I'm assuming this includes all ccTLDs as well. > > Oh, and get this: > > "On an interesting side note, the powerful and controversial Internet > Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is also technically > a Register.com Corporate Services client - although only because of > the volume of domain names it maintains. > > ICANN President Mike Roberts told Newsbytes that ICANN did select > Register.com to renew a number of domain names that ICANN maintains, > but stressed that ICANN's business relationship with the young > registrar goes no further than that." > > So, we have pre-emptive protection of trade and famous marks by fiat. > We also have ICANN implicitly supporting this. > > -- > Mark C. Langston > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Systems Admin > San Jose, CA Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!) CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
