NSI's "use now, pay later" policy encourages speculative hoarding.

I doubt the problem would exist to anywhere near the extent it does
today if the fee was up front.

Which is why I still believe that a FCFS policy, tempered by some
judicious policy may well be appropriate.

How many trademarks can one entity own?

How many domain names can one entity have 'reasonable' claim to?

  Geoff




At 11:53 AM 7/11/97 +1000, Leni Mayo wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>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...
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>Leni.
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