Re: [wg-c] Proposed gTLDs: The IAHC Seven

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 01:36 PM 4/10/00 -0700, Mark C. Langston wrote:
>Finally, would someone please produce the documents in which IANA
>blessed these various registries with the right to start registering

Forgot to anticipate a frequent, factual mis-claim, by providing the 
relevant citation:

         <http://www.brandenburg.com/misc/iodesign-judge.html>

With the most salient text being:

>           What's most interesting about the breach of con-tract/estoppel 
> claim is that the claim made is that there was a contract entered into, 
> or that the Defendant should be estopped from denying that a contract was 
> entered into with an entity that the Plaintiff claims has no authority to 
> act.  And in drawing that conclusion, I don't mean to oversimplify and 
> sound cute about the inconsistency, but there's a real internal 
> inconsistency in the breach of contract position and again, the failure 
> to establish the elements of a contract.
>           The second category of claims really has to do with the unfair 
> competition.  There we have the claim of Image Online that they have a 
> proprietary and protectable interest in dot web.
>           I find the evidence insufficient to support either factually, 
> or as a matter of law, that the Plaintiff has estab- lished that it has 
> protectable proprietary interest in the term -- or the word -- term "dot 
> web," considering the nature of the interweb and the usage of the term, 
> vis a vis, the interweb -- the Internet.


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