Re: [wg-b] How would .fame work?

[martys@interport.net]

OK,  Xerox maintains xerox.com and xerox.fame.  Then .firm is opened up and
anybody can obtain xerox.firm.  How is the existence of .fame a form of
protection for Xerox?



>>I invite all of those who have endorse the non-com paper to explain how a
>>TLD for famous markss (.fame is the example one poster gave) would work.
>
>Fair question.
>>
>>Amazon.com becomes famous and then switches over to amazon.fame?
>>so people know to look only to amazon.fame?
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>Amazon.com is perhaps not the best example, because it has branded .com as
>an integral part of its name.  I imagine if the bookseller first met the
>criteria of famosity, then it would be allowed to register in .FAME or .FAM
>or .TMK or whatever the TLD reserved for famous marks is called.  But I do
>not believe that  it would or should give up its .COM registration, and I
>don't think the two registrations should should be mutually exclusive.
>
>Didn't the WIPO Report say that there are perhaps only 1,000 marks that
>could be considered famous.  So prudence suggests that they have their own
>elite little TLD in cyberspace. In time, people looking for well-known
>brands might expect to find them in the .FAME TLD, if not also in .COM.
>
>I think the greater concern is not whether the corporations would use .COM
>and/or .FAME but how we will avoid "creeping famosity".  Will a company
>that gets x million hits a month on its website be able to claim it is
>famous?  Will a company that makes $xmillion in sales in x countries be
>able to assert that it is famous?  If a hotel hosts an international
>meeting of significant import, does that make it famous?  If a mark becomes
>so-o familiar and famous that it loses its distinctiveness and becomes
>generic, what then?
>
>And what happens if there are multiple trademark identical registrations
>and more than one of them is determined to be famous?  Whose famosity
>prevails?
>
>
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>>and they would never think that any other amazon.xxx was associated with
>>Amzaon?
>>
>>so third parties would never register amazon.xxx to sell books?
>>
>>Please flesh out the proposal.
>>
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