Re: [ga] New York State Domain Law

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny Younger wrote:
> [excerpt]  
> A measure sponsored by Senator Betty Little
> (R,C,I-Queensbury) aimed at preventing a person from
> registering a domain name that is similar to or the
> same as another living person or business with the
> specific intent to profit from selling the domain name
> to that person or business has been signed into law.

Problems:

  - Federal preemption

  - Jurisdictional reach (i.e. suppose I sit here in California and 
register "SpitzerForPresident.ewe" via a California registrar that uses 
a California based registry?


  - Vagueness: Suppose I register "Spitzer.ewe" because I like the name 
and only later decide to try to try to sell it to Eliot?

  - More vagueness: And what if I want to buy it for myself, not to 
profit from, but to use for non-copyrighted uses (e.g. to display 
public-domain pre-historic cave paintings)?

		--karl--