Re: [ga] .et wildcarded

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:48 20/11/2007, Prophet Partners Inc. wrote:
> Hi David, JFC and Joe,
> Let's be realistic here. Following in the steps of the .cm ccTLD, 
> the main purpose of wildcarding the .et ccTLD is to facilitate 
> typosquatting on a massive scale. The vast majority of trademark 
> owners and lawyers who see these non-existing domains resolving to 
> parking pages will incorrectly assume that domain registrants are 
> intentionally exploiting the trademark rights of others. IMO, clear 
> abuses of intellectual property rights such as these, encourage the 
> media to continue to broadly mislabel all domainers as 
> cybersquatters, even domainers who are legitimate domain registrants 
> that respect the intellectual property rights of others. This 
> incorrect stereotyping of domain registrants leads to a weakening of 
> domain registrant rights.
United States of Australia, Union Sud Africaine and United States of 
America have a common USA logo.
Do you mean that Cameroon would be less equal than the other 
countries, and should be prevented to run "*" service because of the 
possible confusion with the US business use of the Commorian alpha3. 
A very simple solution I would certainly faove is the transfer of the 
COM registru to the Cameroon TLD?
I am not a lawyer. I am a equal member of the civil society with the 
same international legitimacy as my fellow members of the world civil 
society, private sector, regalian community and international structures.
jfc



> I am not a lawyer and these are only my personal opinions. If you 
> require legal advice, you should seek qualified legal counsel.
> Note: My original reply from yesterday did not make it to the GA 
> list. Please excuse any possible duplication.
> Sincerely,
> Ted
> Prophet Partners Inc.
> http://www.ProphetPartners.com
> http://www.Premium-Domain-Names.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "TLDA Member (David Scott)" 
> <tlda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "ga" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [ga] .et wildcarded
>
>
> > So in theory, would it be good practice, to wildcard to an A / AAA record
> > and have a no website at this name.
> >
> > Then would everything get a resolve, and a response, overall 
> > reducing the bouncing DNS lookup?
> > Although the problem, I see is the TLD's that are not resolved due 
> > to the lack of knowledge in the ICANN circle.
> > What good is a wildcard if the zone can not be found?
> >
> > David Scott ucann2.org
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> > JFC Morfin wrote:
> > > At 03:17 19/11/2007, Joe Baptista wrote:
> > > > Wildcards in fact are a good thing from the dns 
> > > > perspective.  They reduce overall traffic to the zone.
> > > Very good point.
> > > jfc