Re: [ga] DOT BERLIN -- It's a problem...

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My example was just to show that these type of tld selections award only 1
entity, leaving the rest searching for alternative namespace. The
limitations of a .com are the same. 2 trademark holders, one gets their
trademarked name the other does not.

If tlds were categorized similar to actual tm categories, then there would
be ample namespace for all of them and there would be less dispute over
marks vs domain names. Better yet, if it was done right, a company that
didn't get there namespace in the tld they wanted, they could start a new
tld.

First come first serve is a great idealogy, but existing companies can buy
up all the names right now that have any value, and if you start a company
next year, there is no domain name for you to get, due to limited tlds and
because those tlds are too generic.

Fairness should not only apply to companies that exist today. We have to
look to the future and fairly provide premium namespace for people and
companies who are not even considering namespace yet and maybe not even born
yet.

So first come first serve is not the ideal. It is only ideal for those who
are already registering names. Opening the tld market to create hundreds,
even thousands of tlds is the only way to be fair to future generations of
Internet users.

Chris McElroy, President,
Kidsearch Network
http://www.KidsearchNetwork.org
http://www.MissingChildrenBlog.com
http://www.RunawayTeens.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] DOT BERLIN -- It's a problem...


> Chris and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
> stakeholders/users,
>
> I see no good reason why not.  I can conger up many less than
> good politically based reasons why not however.
>
> kidsearch wrote:
>
> > So, then Paris, TX could get the .paris domain.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 5:36 PM
> > Subject: [ga] DOT BERLIN -- It's a problem...
> >
> > > I started thinking about the upcoming TLD application
> > > for .berlin
> > >
> > > There are those that will argue that instead of
> > > granting the sponsoring organization for this
> > > initiative a top level domain for Berlin, we should
> > > instead be insisting that Berlin rightly belongs on
> > > another level (as in berlin.de or berlin.eu or
> > > berlin.de.eu).  If we accept this argument, then we
> > > are accepting a taxonomic approach which calls for
> > > geographic labels to abide by whatever hierarchy is
> > > set by a country code or regional code manager.
> > >
> > > The flip side of the argument might be to state that
> > > there is nothing inherently wrong with granting
> > > municipalities a top level domain.  You can have
> > > .berlin, .nyc, .saigon, .moscow and thousands of other
> > > cities occupying space at the top level without
> > > occasioning any harm.
> > >
> > > The final decision that we make will set the pattern
> > > for the future.  On what principles shall we base our
> > > selection criteria?  We need a forward-going policy.
> > > What will it be?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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>
> Regards,
>
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