> Of course, an individual large corporation may indeeed use many domain > names. This is completely reasonable: a large corporation may be known > by many names, may have many divisions and subsidiaries around the > world, may have thousands of products -- a large corporation > legitimately may deal with many many names. And there is obviously no > doubt that corporations to register names defensively. The point is > that Ms O has grossly overstated the situation, and presented something > she calls "hoarding" as if it were a major evil. As an aside, sometime back on the ifwp list, Dave Farber noted that past hoarding of resources (e.g. robber barons) forced US government intervention. This was one of the reasons he thought it was more important to try to find a way to make ICANN work, rather than have government more directly involved. --gregbo
