RE: [IFWP] Re: Hilights from today's hearing

[Rob Raisch]

Bill Lovell wrote:
> I'll admit to having a problem with gTLDs: .web is fine, but someone
> was posing the case in which an attorney wanted "something.law,"
> but the folks owning .law charge too much, are incompetent, etc.

This problem vanishes if we demand an administrative infrastructure that
explicitly supports registrars providing customer service to registrants,
irrespective of TLD.  In other words, I want to register in *.foo?  I go to
ANY registrar, or the one with which I have a strong previous relationship,
or have heard good things about, etc.  This is what competition is all
about.

TLDs cannot be treated as property or if someone wishes to treat them as
such, they should be required to protect their intellectual property rights
in a court of law, not through administrative fiat imposed through arbitrary
totalitarian control.

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Rob Raisch CTO - RivalWorks, Inc. <http://www.rivalworks.com>
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