I agree that there needs to be restrictions in place to prevent people from registering domain names that would allow them to take advantage of someone else's pre-exisiting brands, trade marks or goodwill.   I would be interested to hear from anyone who disputes that.

David Wise
Freehill Hollingdale & Page
Brisbane

My views are not necessarily those of my employer.








Mark Nearhos <mjn&#167;cia.com.au> on 07/07/99 05:26:54 pm

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At 04:19 PM 7/7/99 +1000, Mark Hughes wrote:
[snip]
> If we believe that having rules for eligibility and restrictions on
> generic names delivers benefits, then we should be able to support
> that belief by showing how a lack of such rules has caused problems in
> .nz, .com, .net, etc.
[snip]

Re: rules for eligibility of names and how lack of them have caused problems.

US Congress, ICANN and WIPO appear to have a problem with FCFS (though not
with generic names).

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35983,00.html?st.ne.ni.rel

> Domain restrictions target cybersquatters
>      By Courtney Macavinta
>      Staff Writer, CNET News.com
>      May 3, 1999, 1:25 p.m. PT
[snip]
> Cybersquatting has been at the center of an international debate over how
to
> handle trademark disputes over domain names, which historically have been
granted
> on a first-come, first-served basis.
>
> Congress is not alone in trying to tackle the issue. The Internet
Corporation
> for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is in charge of the Net's
core
> technical functions, also is pushing a hot-button proposal introduced by
the World
> Intellectual Property Organization that would give "famous" trademark
holders around
> the globe special claims on domain names.
[snip]

Mark Nearhos

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