On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 sys@zanmai.com wrote:
> Once you register a domain name that does not infringe on someone else's
> existing trademark or servicemark, whether filed or common law, then
> you do "own" it in that you can control, use, rent, transfer, sell, etc.
> it as any other asset.
Trademark law is the very reason the DNS system is falling apart. The
trade mark lawyers are the one's who are standing in the way of expanding
the namespace.
Namespace should never have been associated with trademarks. The dns can
be used as a language. It is flexible enough now, and dot com is the
proof of it, that you can fit the entire dictionary into the top level
domain space.
At this time there's alot of money tied up in dot com - but if we opened
it up so that I could http://register.anything.i.wanted/ - I think you
would see the internet and namespace really take off.
Don't forget that dot com was once considered the junk top level
domain. If you didn't fit into .org or .net - you got a .com. That's a
historic fact. It was the ecommerce propaganda and the momentum of
ignorance that gave network solutions it's break in dot.com. Once apone a
time you could not give those dot.com's away - nobody wanted them.
But were stuck with ICANN and that's that. Anyone wanting to liberate the
namespace should join Icann as an @Large member.
http://members.icann.org/
Regards
Joe Baptista
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