On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Le 20/02/2014 22:51, Brion Vibber a écrit :
> > > TLD proliferation is a scam by money-hungry registrars who want people
> to
> > > register (and thus pay) in multiple TLDs to "protect their brands".
> > >
> > > I recommend we boycott/ignore these various things and just avoid them,
> > but
> > > I know we're going to end up registering a bunch for the "brand
> > protection"
> > > (racket).
> >
> > To the lawyers around there:
> >
> > Can a trademark owner sue the registrar directly? After all it sold a
> > product (the domain) using your trademark.
> >
>
> Remember that "wiki" is not a WMF trademark :) But presumably if someone
> registered something like pedia.wiki we'd have a variety of tools to have
> to address the problem.
>
>
Or we could do like Brion suggests and completely ignore that .wiki and
these other new gTLDs exist.

-Chad
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