Re: [ga] New York State Domain Law

[elliot noss <enoss@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am a buyer of surnames so if you have it, I am interested ;-)

On Aug 8, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> 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--