Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

[Greg Skinner]

"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I would posit that we have just found the natural process by which
> new TLDs will have to be created. Further, as Marty, Bill, and I
> discussed earlier on this list, all SLDs and other domains,
> registered within this TLD, can be protected behind the TLD's
> charter. It gets even more interesting in that, since the
> trademark-holder is held responsible for maintaining the quality of
> that mark, they can NOT be coerced into allowing other registrars to
> register domains in that TLD, on the simple argument of "quality
> control".

I think if this goes through, organizations will start registering TLDs in
their own name, and we will hit the TLD safe limit a lot faster than
we would otherwise.

--gregbo