>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,
This doesn't appear to square with what we discussed earlier on the "DNS vs Trademarks" thread. If I may summarize the process we were last discussing,
- Create a TLD charter
- Trademark the TLD
- put it into operation.
- Defend, in court, if need be (and probably win).
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