Subject: Cybersquatting
From: Online information (mbrody@hostu.net)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 21:26:55 EST
In regard to the discussion that has happened here on the issue of
cybersquatting. I am personally against the concept of cybersquatting,
but to advocate us or anybody else taking some sort of action on this
issue is not approptiate. There are (im sure) many legal hurdles that
must be jumped and there may be or aqt least should be some form of policy
from ICANN regarding this issue. I am not an attorney but in my opinion
trying to stop cybersquatting on the net is on shaky legal grounds at
best. and whereas cybersquatting violate what the net is intended for,
any attempts to stop cybersquatting also violate what the net is intended
for (can anybody spell catch 22). In addition the dectreases in domain
name registratin prices that market deregulation and competition will
bring will only increase cybersquatting. The cat is out of the bag and
any attempts to put it back in the bag will only have us chasing our own
tails. IMHO the best hope for this issue is the use of the REALNAMES
service. And for that to become an industry standard... but that service
is controlled by a private company and I am not a fan of any one company
having as much power as my comment would imply.. Perhaps maybe we should
be looking at a membership based orgainization (NOT FOR PROFIT) composed
of ISP's Domain Name Resellers, Web Designers, and other Web professionals
to develop a service similar to realnames that would make domain
names virtually
obsoloete... totally changing the paradigm... Yes a herculean task but
with the growth of the net one that might be worth a look at.
anyone want to help me write a grant request submit it to NSF and become a
monopoly that the rest of the net would want to break up (only kidding
on
this part but the rest is good food for thought)
michael brody
mbrody@cmeonline.com
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