On Oct 16, 2003, at 9:39 PM, Dan Riley wrote:
<snip> And write your congressmen to explain how Verisign is abusing a government granted monopoly to stop others (including M$ and AOL) from innovating at the edge, because that's where this is headed--Verisign is ultimately counting on having better lobbyists with USDOC than ICANN, and they're probably safe to do so unless DOC feels some oversight from above.
Has anybody thought to explore the trademark implications of sitefinder?
For example, verisign is returning A records (and subsequently earning revenue from that traffic) for say:
COKE-SOFT-DRINK.COM TIDE-DETERGENT.COM
etc..
Perhaps having the legal departments from Coke and P&G targetting them might make verisign rethink some policies?
Perhaps not.. just a thought..
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-dan
Matt Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." -BIX
