Re: PRIOR USE (Re: Am I confused?)

[Aveek Datta <MoNoLiTH+@CMU.EDU>]

As per the remark below from Mr. Eastlake:

Excerpts from mail: 20-Nov-96 Re: PRIOR USE (Re: Am I con.. by Donald E.
E. 3rd@cyberca 
> While I agree with much of what you say and am sure that, for example, in 
> the last line of your message below, you are being sarcastic, I don't 
> know if others will be able to tell.  Please, if you don't want your 
> words quoted back to you as a somewhat binding statement by an idiot that 
> can't see you were joking, *always* throw in a smiley or the like.

True. I didn't put a smiley in because I'm not sure if I *am* being
sarcastic. I would not resort to legal bullying myself, but then again I
don't believe in "by any means possible" for most things.  However it does
seem to work well to edge out competitors.

So the bottom line is while the message was intended to be sarcastic, I have
the gut feeling it might end up being true. Disturbing, but that is the
reason why I skipped the smiley.

I guess it's up to the IAHC. If IAHC does make a stand against domain name
squatters, it'll be an interesting legal battle and I hope the IAHC is up
for it. If not, well it still remains to be seen if anyone will stand up or
sue for the interest of the Net in general.

> > It's really too bad that I didn't have a bit of money to retain a lawyer.
> > Then I could have set up a DNS server to serve SOA records for all
> > 50^3 or so combinations (about 125,000) of three letter TLDs, with the
> > exception of the ISO TLDs and the six that the Internic have their
prior use
> > for. Then I could have become the FreeView of top level domains; probably
> > legal but never the less a Domain Name Bastard. But I guess it was my
> > mistake to follow common protocol and convention and wait till there was
> > more official notice of the opening of TLDs. Tsk tsk, I am so experienced.
> > Legal bullying is the way to go!

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