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RE: new.net


From: "Mike Batchelor" <mikebat () tmcs net>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:25:18 -0800


richb () pioneer ci net writes:

Corporate entities should be *required* to register in the flat dot-com
namespace, IMHO, and not be *allowed* names in any other namespace.

I like the idea of creating a new ".tm" TLD (or something less likely
to conflict with a CCTLD), and requiring anybody who wants trademark
protection to register there; everything else is a free-for-all, as it
pretty much is now.  Let them have their little trademark disputes
over there, and let less litigious heads rule in the other TLDs.

How do you propose to enforce this?  What authority will be able to
intercede in a trademark lawsuit involving a domain outside .tm, and put a
stop to it?

The namespace is the namespace, and infringment is infringment, whereever it
occurs.  If infringment occurs, the damaged party should not be prevented
from seeking relief.


-----ScottG.








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