Geoff Huston wrote:
> I must admit that after much thought about this I wonder about the
> wisdom of using an external citation as the reference of 'validity'
> of a DNS name.

A stated intent on a DNAs part to implement a mapping between the DNS
and an external citation authority might have a bit of legal risk too.

Network Solutions have a FCFS policy and haven't yet had to pay any
damages as a result of disputes between trademark owners and domain name
holders and though they've been named in a number of lawsuits, they've
mostly been dismissed as a party.

One wouldn't look to Network Solutions for pointers on allocation
management though.  They've spawned a whole industry which we can well
do without.  When someone has thousands of domain names, one would think
they were hoarding.  But from an earlier posting:
mark.hughes§ccamatil.com wrote:
> For example, my company has one company
> name but thousands of products and many trademark brand names.

It'd be nice to discourage the hoarder, but if DNAs are to avoid
referring back to a citation authority, how is the hoarder different
from the bulk trademark owner?  And a fair DNA would have to charge both
of them the same price...

Leni.