Re: Why does everyone assume that a registry must be like theInternic?

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 1:20 PM -0500 11/23/96, Aveek Datta wrote:

>  Top Level Domain Ownership.
>  Can someone OWN the rights to a top level domain? You can own a registry,
>  but can you won a top level domain? Or is this public property that must
>  be handled as such? And what is handled "as such"? This is issues that
>  the IAHC must decide on, and then I bet the courts will make the final
>  decision.
>
>  I personally believe that top level domains can not be owned; they are
>  a public resource. So your argument just doesn't make sense. However,
>  there is no clarity on the issue; if TLDs can be owned, then we have
>  to deal with all this prior use stuff.  If not.... well that would be
>  nice, now wouldn't it?
>

Pop quiz:

1. who can and cannot use a TLD named ".COM"?
2. who can and cannot use a TLD named ".IBM"?


Simon

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