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RE: Conflict resolution?
Would someone send out the current registration counts for the different
domains and perhaps their recent and long term growth rates? I think
this will help add some perspective to the criticality of the issues.
Thanks.
Alexis Bor
GlobalTel
1520 Eastlake Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98102
206-720-7250
206-720-7251 (fax)
alexis.bor@globaltel.com
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>From: Hank Nussbacher[SMTP:hank@ibm.net.il]
>Sent: Monday, November 18, 1996 7:31 AM
>To: Gert Blij
>Cc: iahc-discuss@iahc.org
>Subject: Re: Conflict resolution?
>
>On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Gert Blij wrote:
>
>> >From the IAHC charter: (*'s are mine)
>>
>> "The DNS is an *international* resource and the *IAHC will at all times
>> operate with that perspective*. The IAHC
>> specification effort will address *legal*, administrative, technical and
>> operational concerns, with particular attention to the questions of
>> *fairness* and functional stability."
>>
>> Based on the above I sincerely hope that the IAHC will tackle the issue of
>> conflict resolution WRT to unfair use of domain name registration. I
>> appreciate that this is a difficult and hot topic, but I feel very strongly
>> that if the Internet is to be considered truly *global*, it needs to be
>> resolved.
>>
>> The present conflict resolution criteria sound great but have no teeth. All
>> they do is protect the registration authority from legal action, but don't
>> really resolve anything.
>>
>> A real live example:
>>
>> There is an organisation in New York which has registered (hi-jacked)
>> dozens of domain names (with the .com extension) pertaining to company
>> names, registered trademarks etc. in South Africa and Japan.
>>
>> With sanctions having been lifted a lot of companies here in South Africa
>> would like to create an international "feel" by using the .com extension
>> rather than the localised .co.za one but now can not do so.
>>
>> We are advised by various lawyers here that according to the present
>> conflict resolution guidelines, the only way to tackle the issue is to take
>> this organisation to court in *New York*.
>>
>> I am sure you all appreciate thatthis is virtually impossible for 99.9
>> percent of companies outside the USA.
>>
>> Again, if the Internet is to be(come) a truly global phenomenon, then it
>> needs to solve these problems in globally acceptable manner and not be
>> based on the current legal flavor of the USA.
>>
>> (If I have misunderstood the present conflict resolution policy and there
>> is an easy way to get the domain names back, pease let me know. I and many
>> others here in South Africa would be very grateful :-) )
>
>The way to resolve this is to make .com insignificant or to create
>many better alternatives. Then companies abroad have alternatives
>to the overpopulated .com domain.
>
>
>>
>> Gert
>> ______________________________________________
>> Gert Blij (gert@itst.co.za) ITST (Pty) Ltd
>> 22 Sluysken Road, Hout Bay, 7800, South Africa
>> +27/(0)21/ work & fax: 790 2724 h: 790 3342
>> http://www.aztec.co.za/itst
>>
>
>Hank Nussbacher
>IAHC member
>[the views expressed above belong to the author and do not
>necessarily reflect the views of the other IAHC members]
>
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