On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Kent Crispin wrote:
> 1) There are millions of names in .com. Even with 50000 names marked out,
> adding 6 new gTLDs is an *enormous* expansion of the domain space.
complete nonsense here. the root file can be as big as dot.com, that's a
fact, if that was not a fact dot.com would not work. Last time I looked
dot.com was 900 megs in size, which means the root can be 900 megs in
size. at this time the root is only some 200K - so spare us the
misinformation kent.
regards
joe
>
> 2) Far more important than the particular number is the set of criteria
> for admission in the list. If there are indeed 50000 legitimate "famous
> marks" by some defensible definition, then 50000 is a true measure of
> the scope of the problem. (The IAHC challenge panel guidelines had
> objective criteria for famous marks -- "formally registered as a mark in
> more than 75 countries", for example.)
>
> 3) The list, as I understand it, is for the dominant (except in wg-c)
> definition of "gTLD"s -- that is, TLDs that allow open registration to
> all, without any enforced policies on registration. TLDs that had real
> charters would be in a different category -- for example, a TLD (say,
> nom) that had a registration requirement that the SLD name had to be a
> legal name for the individual registering the SLD could be exempt from
> the exclusion list (so macdonald.nom could really go to someone name
> macdonald).
>
>
> > I think this is a practical and serious issue. How big would
> > the list be? There is also an issue of the type of protection Pesi
> > would get. Would Pesi get protection from popesitdown.com or
> > pesivcoke.comparison?
>
> You mean "pepsi", I believe. As far as I know, the exclusion list is
> for exact string matches.
>
> > And, if the world wants to set a global trademark policy, why doesn't
> > the world do this through its existing international institutions like
> > WIPO or WTO? Why does ICANN, hardly a representative or accountable
> > group, become a policy maker in this area?
>
> Because domain names bring the problem to the surface, and there is no
> other body in the correct place to do anything in anything like the
> "internet" time scale.
>
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