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Actually, I might just explain on Philip's initial comment. The
"typical motivations" of business uses are very broad, and first and foremost,
involves using the names that we, as business users, register to communicate
with customers, market products, provide customer service, provide actual
products to users, manage our own internal communications, etc. etc.
:-)
One
motivation of some business users, from time to time, is to take defensive
registration, when compelled to do so, to ensure against customer/user confusion
and misleading communications, trademark infringement, protect against misuse of
a domain name that is similar to a service or trademark use, etc. Bad faith is
one critical concern of business users. But their interests are varied, just as
their business models, strategy, and "reach" and products/services are. :-)
As to
ICANN's role in ensuring a stable and predictable environment in the Internet's
technical functioning, we may have differences about how to achieve that, or the
exact scope, but it is a primary concern to business users.
Marilyn S. Cade 202-457-2106v
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