RE: [wg-review] Trademarks

["Dassa" <dassa@dhs.org>]

|>-----Original Message-----
|>From: owner-wg-review@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-review@dnso.org]On
|>Behalf Of Philip Sheppard
|>Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 1:36 AM
|>To: wg-review@dnso.org
|>Subject: Re: [wg-review] Trademarks
|>
|>
|>Surely the key to the trademarks/domains issue is that of net user
|>confidence.
|>
|>What is important is the intent of the domain name holder. 
|>Are they in good faith or bad faith? Do they seek fair DNS presence (that may 
|>be coincidental to the names of others) or do they seek to pretend to be what 
|>they are not?

I still do not see why the DNS should be involved.  This would be a purely legal matter that the trademark holder could take up with the authorities as they would any other trademark infringements.

By making trademarks a deciding factor within the DNS, we are actually doing the work for the trademark holders at very little cost to them (comparative).

Why should trademark holders be given this type of benefit when others are not.  Are we next going to recognise business name registrations as having predetermined rights within the DNS? (Yes, I know to some extent this is already happening)

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.

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