RE: [ga] Kamusi.com Domain

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

What worries me most here is not the free enterprise process, but some 
underlying tone that seems to suggest that speculation is a bad thing.
 
To my understanding, Kamusi means dictionary.** Therefor Kamusi is not 
trademarkable or copywrited as it stands. Clearly someone has purchased the 
rights to use the name based on a speculation of later profit or perhaps plans 
for use in the future, or even to prevent use by another.
 
My point is that Karl seems to say this is an immoral thing or a bad thing. I 
do not think most on this list would agree.
 
**(although it would appear that the cultural connotations here really are not 
of a noun basis but of a happening type concept. Kamusi is more a concept of a 
gathering of meanings as though words were living creatures not truly 
susceptable to capture. But this much more meaningful useage does not meet our 
international standards and should be ignored here in order to be understood. 
One could argue that certain words are in fact owned by a culture. But if you 
go there you must finish the argument of whether in fact some words are so 
interelated to action that they need be patented)

--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Debbie Garside <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Debbie Garside <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [ga] Kamusi.com Domain
To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 5:41 AM



Hi Karl
 
I have read the DBP online policies and, as Tim has confirmed, unsolicited 
emails to the Whois listed address (which incorporates the domain name) are 
forwarded to the "registrant" but they do not have to reply.
 
Best
 
Debbie




From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Karl E. Peters
Sent: 24 January 2009 02:11
To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ga] Kamusi.com Domain


Not to rain on anyone's parade, but has anyone read their policies to see if 
they are allowed to bring cash offers to their Privacy clients as a part of the 
deal. Many, like someone who would bother to register kamusi.com may very well 
want to hide behind such a veil and wait for high profit opportunities brought 
them through these arrangements. Don't get me wrong, I believe this to be sad 
and a form of bottom fishing like the rest of you, but read the policy these 
people signed on to before making too many blind judgements about company 
ethics. One of the few things worse than doing wrong is to wrongly accuse 
someone of doing wrong and paint them unfairly. Personally, I don't even like 
the concept of private domains for the reasons above, and others, but it is not 
illegal, yet...
-Karl E. Peters