>From: "Judith Oppenheimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Hartman, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "'Harald Tveit Alvestrand'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Wg-B@Dnso. Org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [bwg+] RE: TM Sunrise +20 (Re: [wg-b] WG-B Report -Take II) >Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:15:17 -0400 > >I support the sunrise proposal as a fair and reasonable balance of the >trademark and non trademark interests in domain name ownership. > >Steve Hartman >Nabisco, Inc. >---------------- > >No doubt. > >A very casual search of the uspto database shows that Nabisco has over 882 >U.S. trademark registrations, which >if true, means that during the "sunrise +20," Nabisco would be able to >register up to 18,522 domain names -- per TLD. > >I was under the impression that the IPC, of which Nabisco is a member, was >*against* hoarding. > >The question arises, how does this hoarding comply in any way with >"legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the domain name" ... ? > >Also Ellen Rony wrote that the IPC Proposal, "... would immediately provide >for potential exclusion of twenty million [domain names] for U.S. trademarks >alone." (Keep in mind, it's taken 20 years for Network Solutions to reach a >registration base of ten million domain names.) > >The Trademark Lobby says it is "protecting the consumer." How is the >Trademark Lobby "protecting the consumer" by usurping *twenty million* >domain names for storage in its private coffers?** > >Judith > > >**The "consumer" is the 23 million small businesses in the United States in >1998, who represent more than 99 percent of all employers in this country. > >The "consumer" is the 52 percent of private workers and 38 percent of >high-tech works employed by "consumer"-owned small businesses. > >Virtually all of the net new jobs in the United States, staffed by >"consumers", were provided by "consumer"-owned small businesses. > >"Consumer"-owned small businesses use of the Internet is rapidly expanding. >In the past two years, "consumer"-owned small businesses with access to the >Internet has doubled from 21.5 percent to 41.2 percent. Thirty-five percent >of "consumer"-owned small businesses maintain a Web site and one in three do >business transactions through their site. > >Statistics source: Comments of the Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business >Administration, DNSO Working Group A Final Report to the ICANN Board, August >25, 1999 > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ph-1.613.473.1719 It's about travel on expense accounts to places with good beer. - BKR
