Re: [ga] A TLD for Trademarks

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Making Trademark identification more straightforward and less expensive
would not seem to me to be a "restraint of trade". What possible reason
would a small business have for spending its hard-earned money on 100's of
defensive registrations in future TLDs, when it could achieve its
authenticated trademark identity with just *one* registration?

Personally, if I want to register www.apple.scot or www.apple.sci or
www.apple.bla at the launch of future TLDs, I regard it as a "restraint of
trade" and also a restraint on my right of access to my own language, if the
IP lobby claims the repeated right to get there first and take all these
generic names. To me, that stifles diversity and the future innovation of
the Net. I would also say that in setting up all these Sunrise processes,
ICANN is failing to ensure one of its main remits: "the fair distribution of
the DNS".

I repeat, why "trademark" a domain name over and over again, if a process
can be set up which means you only need to do it once?

Yrs,

Richard H

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "icann board address" <icann-board@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] A TLD for Trademarks


> Richard and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,
> To change this now would represent a
> restraint of trade that many companies would take ICANN to task
> on and ICANN would loose that fight.