Re: [ga] List of Domain Names

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/15/2010 10:59 AM, Debbie Garside wrote:

> > Let's not exacerbate the privacy catastrophe that has been
> > created by ICANN's submission to the trademark industry.
> What submission?
Not "submission" in the "I submit this document to you" sense.

Rather, "submission" as practiced in the South of Market part of San 
Francisco, as in the opposite of "dominance" - often involving leather 
and whips.
I am on both sides of these issues (the trademark issues, not the 
"submission/dominance" issues ;-) - I and my company own several US 
registered trademarks that we monitor and defend.  On the other hand I 
am routinely aroused at all hours of the day, weekdays and weekends, by 
telemarketers who are calling using telephone numbers that have been 
obtained by data mining whois.  And I get several thousand spams a day 
to addresses that exist only in my registration information, again 
gleaned by mining of whois.
The hypothetical threats that trademark people carry on about are 
Chicken Little tantrums that their sky is falling.  Much of that whining 
is about uses of names that are lawful uses - even the Nike company has 
to give way to the Greek pantheon and that famous winged statue from 
Samothrace (sp) that's at the top of a staircase at the Louvre.
It has long been my position that a trademark owner who wants to look 
into whois ought to be required to state, in writing onto a permanent 
and public record, his/her name and accusation, backed by concrete 
statements of supporting evidence, why he/she believes that the accused 
domain name owner is violating an owned trademark or some other right 
that is possessed by the person seeking access.
        --karl--