I asked someone to go off to look at the ICANN website to get the update
on draftguidelines. They came back confused saying they could only
purchase domain names there. There were right.
icann.org may be defending all that is true beautiful and fair, but
icann.de and icann.co.uk appear to be ...trading.
Will ICANN be suing these trademark 'dilutors' or has it conceded the mark
outside the US, a victim of its own policies?
MM
Greg Skinner wrote:
> Milton Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Do you see any danger that if ICANN becomes dependent on revenues
> >from accreditation and registration volume fees that it may--like the
> >ITU did--become hostile to any major competitive threat to the
> >business firms and technologies that threaten to overturn that
> >regime? and that that hostility will work to the long-term detriment
> >of technological development and market competition?
>
> I think there is a possibility that the marketplace may find some
> other means of establishing online presence, and that ICANN might not
> raise the revenues it thought it would. For well-heeled registrants,
> the registration fees will be a drop in the bucket. However, if less
> well-off would-be registrants find the fees excessive (particularly if
> they do not feel they had a say in the fee establishment process),
> they may very well find other options. As I've said before, when it
> comes to putting up a web site or email reflector, you don't need your
> own domain name, and today's technology gives you the ability to do
> these things without your own domain name.
>
> --gregbo
