William and all,
I am afraid I must for the most part agree with WIlliam here. As to
the characterization of PGmedia, I don't agree with that. But by in
large, trying to claim ownership of a large number of gTLD's
without the benefit of a TM on them or even with a TM, unless you
can legitimately financially support those gTLD's, you are spitting
in the wind, so to speak...
William X. Walsh wrote:
> Tuesday, August 24, 1999, 10:41:11 PM, Robin Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>The only solution I see working would be handing over all the
> >>information regarding the registrations you accept for TLDs which are
> >>the intellectual property of others.
>
> > Ummm? Spirit of cooperation and stuff? We have come on the scene with
> > hundreds of thousands of new users to alternative DNS to bring to the pot.
> > We have also stopped accepting registrations in several dozen TLDs. We are
> > offering to send you traffic - we are offering our resources.
>
> > Quite frankly - our app is like a plug-in - it lets our users go to places
> > we offer them just a different way than hyperlinks. Should we choose we
> > could just go ahead and claim all the name space - and let me tell you we
> > could - there would be no infrigement - our users choose to download the
> > app - they know what it's for - we are simply enabling them to visit ours
> > and partners' sites in a different way.
>
> > But we have not taken that attitude - However I keep being tempted to pull
> > out of the discussions here and go it alone - in 3 months we'll have twice
> > as much resolution as all other alternative DNS combined.
>
> > We are DOING something here to help BUILD this namespace everyone wants so
> > much to happen. And yes - we came out of nowhere as far as you are
> > concerned - but we have more traffic and resources than you can imagine.
>
> I hope those resources include deep pockets.
>
> You are doing more to harm the concept of new gTLDs that you are doing
> to support it.
>
> You are pulling nothing more than a variation of the PGMedia
> name.space type grab, trying to cash in as much as possible for as
> long as you can get away with it, and lay claim to as much of the
> namespace as you can get away with, rather than acting like a
> responsible member of the internet community and restricting yourself
> to a small handful of top level domains.
>
> It is for this reason that you will find very little sympathy or
> support for this concept, and very few will take you seriously,
> including the courts.
>
> --
> William X. Walsh - DSo Internet Services
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