Re: [EURO-ALS] [ALAC] .xxx
ICANN should not be in the business of evaluating strings,
period. It should publish technical criteria and minimally evaluate
whether a registry fulfills those.
Some trademark holders will argue against new TLDs, but then they'd
also argue against learning new languages, lest they have to "police"
their marks in those too.
--Wendy
At 04:16 AM 1/30/2007, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>Just pushing the issue again - if we want to be heard on this, we need
>to come up with a statement in a not too long timeframe, definitely
>before Lisbon.
>
>Specifically:
>
>Bret Fausett ha scritto:
> > On the money printing machine argument, this is an argument in favor of no
> > new generic TLDs at all. I don't see it as unique to .XXX.
>
>No, the point is that if you had a TLD that is useful to someone (as any
>other TLD that was created, basically), then defensive registrations
>would be a price that we collectively have to pay to get more names
>available out there. But if the TLD is not wanted by its own community
>(and it seems unlikely that adult webmasters are actually going to move
>into it, just to be filtered out more easily), then what you're left
>with is a TLD that more or less only contains defensive registrations
>and pay-per-click sites, and that is a nonsense to me.
>
>OTOH, I think that defensive registrations are a silly method to protect
>one's brand, as it doesn't scale, and moreover it helps create scarcity
>of good names - so it's time that ICANN discourages it and ensures that
>there are effective methods to act ex post, rather than being concerned
>about how to help it.
>--
>vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <--------
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Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
http://www.chillingeffects.org/
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