Re: [IFWP] Re: [dnsproc-en] Re: Domain Names are property, says court

[Bill Lovell]

At 04:53 PM 3/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Bill Lovell a écrit:
>>
>> ICANN is saying that
>> as soon as I tell one of the registrars what that name is, and tell them
>> I want to park it there, then the ownership of that domain name
>> transmogrifies over to ICANN?  Horse puckey.
>
>It's no more horse puckey, I'm afraid, than the restrictive
>allocation of electromagnetic radiation in the earth's ionosphere.
>You can invent a four-letter name for a transmitter of
>electromagnetic radiation, but it's not much use until the regulator
>grants you a piece of the high-frequency electromagnetic radiation
>spectrum. Same soon for domain names.

We're talking past each other.  In your example, the regulator does
NOT own "KOIN," "WPBS,"  etc., in spite of the fact that it "owns,"
i.e., has control of, that spectral space. :-)

Bill Lovell

Bill Lovell