Re: [ga] Interesting WIPO ruling re: NewZealand.biz

[Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca>]

Actually, in a public forum in the past century, Jonathan Cohen (not yet an
ICANN board member at the time) stood up in the audience of a panel discussion I
believe I was chairing, and stated with great vigour (and for the record) that
"no one should be allowed to own patents.com".


"John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D." wrote:

> >
> > One of the biggest problems that I find in domain names is that the
> > registration of those which include generic names and terms commonly used,
> > like the name of a country, is not banned, unlike trade and service marks.
>
> This is the first time I've seen someone arguing that there should be a ban
> on generic and common terms AND trademarks.
>
> That leaves few other choices, but maybe we should just ban registering
> domain names entirely.
>
>

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