> Subject: Re: ICANN's proposed restrictions on use of famous names
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:54:22 -0500
> From: "Becky Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> While the ccTLDs are not real competitors at the moment, there are
> some interesting changes taking place in these spaces. The rate of
> growth in .uk and .de over the last year, for example, has exceeded the
> growth rate in .com. I think that with some work .us could be very,
> very interesting real estate.
So, .us is to become "real estate", that is, perverted to commercial
use? And all the participants in the DOC-sponsored talks on the
reorganization of .us have just wasted our time thinking of ways to
make the allocation of .us space serve the public interest?
> From: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Becky Burr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> it is great that there will be changes in .us
So, CPT agrees with the relegation of .us to commercial
exploitation?
> From: "Becky Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> our position on expansion of the root is
> clearly laid out in the White Paper - we think that new gTLDs should be
> added, but in a careful and controlled way and that ICANN and not the
> USG should decide what new gTLDs should be added and how they should be
> added
Nowhere does the White Paper speak of ICANN. It speaks of a NewCo in
which ALL stakeholders are represented.
> If, for example, the ICANN process identified consensus for addition of
> a .union gTLD
Consensus, schmemensus. Read: "If the unions have enough political
clout to force the addition of .union".
> I can't think of any reason that we would object to that
> on its face (which is to say, if the rules for registering in a .union
> violated US competition law or intellectual property law, we might
> object to those rules).
Sure, just like with .com, which doesn't violate competition law,
huh?
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