Re: IP/TM Concerns & New GTLDs (was:Re: [wg-c] Who should vote for new gTLDs)

["Siegfried Langenbach" <svl@nrw.net>]

On 28 Jul 99, at 18:14, Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 01:58:05PM -0700, Mark C. Langston wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > What I don't understand is the difference it makes if it's 1 or 100
> > new TLDs.  They're all in the same root.  They're all more or less
> > searchable.  And putting a DRP in place that was agreed to by the
> > TM/IP interests says to me that the TMP/IP interests are satisfied
> > with the DRP.
> 
> Domain names are reachable from the same root.  Contact information 
> is not.  If there are 100 new gTLDs and they are all served from the 
> same registry, then you might be right (though there are issues 
> there as well).  

even with one "light" registry we have a problem with contact-infos :-((
siegfried

But if you have 100 different registries trying to 
> differentiate themselves competitively, the difficulty of finding 
> contact information goes up tremendously.
> 
> One also has to be concerned about how it will be possible, from a
> practical standpoint, for a nearly broke ICANN to enforce uniform TM
> policy with 100 new registries... 
> 
> -- 
> Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
> kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
>