Re: [ga] GoDaddy gets patent on proxy Whois service

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris and all,

  ICANN will have leadership if and when it has elections of it's BoD
members
by any and all stakeholders AND when the present ICANN staff/exec's
have been removed or resigned.

kidsearch wrote:

>    If only ICANN actually had policies about anything. The decisions
> thus far have been completely inconsistant on almost every single
> front. They want to review business plans for new TLD applicants,
> which is a policy decision, but don't want to interfere on other
> similar issues. It's like a child. Likes something one minute and not
> the next. Vint, an organization reflects it's leadership. When will
> ICANN have some?
>
> Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
> http://www.articlecontentprovider.com
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Prophet Partners Inc.
>   To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 7:51 PM
>   Subject: Re: [ga] GoDaddy gets patent on proxy Whois service
>
>
>   Hi Chris,
>
>   That's exactly the point. A proxy service is not a new idea, but now
> that GoDaddy has patent protection for it, what does that mean to
> their competitors in the domain registration business? How will this
> affect the reshaping of ICANN's Whois policy?
>
>   Sincerely,
>   Ted
>   Prophet Partners Inc.
>   http://www.ProphetPartners.com
>   http://www.Premium-Domain-Names.com
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: kidsearch
>     To: Prophet Partners Inc. ; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 5:53 PM
>     Subject: Re: [ga] GoDaddy gets patent on proxy Whois service
>
>
>     how is this new?
>
>     patents are always being granted, trademarks too, that do nothing
> but confuse people and that should never be granted.
>
>     Isn't that the same that has already been being done elsewhere?
>
>
>       ----- Original Message -----
>       From: Prophet Partners Inc.
>       To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:56 PM
>       Subject: [ga] GoDaddy gets patent on proxy Whois service
>
>
>       GoDaddy was granted U.S. patent #7,130,878 on October 31,2006
> for proxy domain name registration.
>
>
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22go+daddy%22
>
>       Sincerely,
>       Ted
>       Prophet Partners Inc.
>       http://www.ProphetPartners.com
>       http://www.Premium-Domain-Names.com
>
>

Regards,

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