In message <83163718-fa5b-47ba-ba50-67701abd5...@virtualized.org>, David Conrad writes: > On Jun 19, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > I'm curious how anyone that has not signed a agreement with ICANN > > can be bound to anything in any applicant guide book. =20 > > In order to obtain a gTLD, you have to sign a contractual agreement with = > ICANN.
David, you are missing the point. The TM holder doesn't want the gtld, they just want to protect their trademark. The TM holder doesn't have a contract with ICANN. They do however have a legitimate right to the name and want to spend $0 keeping the name out of anybodys hands but theirs. $187K is not longer a amount to be sneezed at. Mark > > Also rfp-clean-30may11-en.pdf basically deals with <tm>.<gtld>. > > You might want to re-read pretty much any part of that document (e.g., = > the title). > > Regards, > -drc -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org