Re: [ga] Companion Dispute Proposal to WLS Service

[Ellen Rony <ellen@rony.com>]

Yebbut, the notion of WLS-squatting and a WLSDRP is humorous because it
mirrors the companion idiocy that already exists.  Did y'all miss that?

Domain name registration has been transformed from a facilitating protocol
into an archetypal fight between good vs. evil.  Trademarks good,
cybersquatters evil.  Non-trademark owners are potential evil-doers until
they prove otherwise, if challenged.

The simplicity of RFC 1591 FCFS has been replaced by multi-level marketing
writ large.   One may now pay for a pre-emptive opportunity to register a
name, bid or pay for the opportunity to be in a queue to have a random
chance at registering a name, pay to defend a challenge to a sunrise
registration, pay to defend the actual domain registration which is forever
vulnerable to a UDRP challenge, and now pay to be placed first on a list to
get a name if it ever expires.

So many ways these days to fold a domain name registration and stick it
where the sun don't shine.

-Ellen




At 11:13 AM -0400 6/7/02, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
>         Lighten up, everyone.  Marc was joking.  *John* was joking when he
>started this thread.
>
>Jon Weinberg
>weinberg@msen.com
>
>
>
>At 10:50 AM 6/7/2002 -0700, Sandy Harris wrote:
>>Marc Schneiders wrote:
>>
>> > > In most countries, you are innocent unless proven guilty. What you
>> propose
>> > > is to decide that somebody is guilty even before committing the action.
>> >
>> > Terrorism, piracy, above all the latter, need to be tackled _before_ the
>> > vile acts are committed. We cannot allow any chances, that a trademark
>> > actually gets hurt.
>>
>>I hope you were joking or being sarcastic in writing that. If not,
>>methinks you're insane.
>>
>>A murderer or child molester is treated as innocent until proven guilty
>>in
>>many countries, and has some right to due process almost anywhere. You
>>appear to be claiming that "piracy" against trademark right is so
>>heinous
>>a crime that it demands special measures, more severe than those against
>>murder or child molestation. This is utterly ludicrous.
>>
>>You might make that case for terrorism. It is at least arguable that,
>>against such enemies, even democratic nations should go outside their
>>normal legal principles and resort to arrest without habeas corpus, or
>>even to assasination. I'm unconvinced, but there are certainly some
>>strong arguments for that position.
>>
>>But "terrorism, piracy, above all the latter ...". Even without "above
>>all", this would be lunacy. With it, it is utterly unbeleivable.
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