> Microsoft is a nice simple example, but there *will* be disputes.  There are
> categories of trademarks numbering somewhere around 50, and overlap across
> these is perfectly legal, so unless they are somehow incorporated into the
> domain name, there is plenty of potential for dispute where one company
> considers that another has 'its' domain name.  I can also just imagine how
> popular bogus.tm35.com.au will be (not).
> 
> If the answers were all simple, these problems would have been resolved years
> ago (because this is how long they have been discussed).

Chris,

Lets not take a couple more then :-)

What is wrong with a free for all ?

Lets open up a new set of 20 TLDs under .au and sell them to the highest
bidder in order to fund the forums and NOCs and auDAs, ADNAs etc etc


 

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Stephen Baxter  CCNA             SE Network Access/Big Networks Australia

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