Re: New TLDs and Registry charters

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

> 	What do folks think of having space which is marked of explicitly
> for trademark owners?  I doubt that one can RESTRICT them and their claims
> to such a space, but it does gove them a venue that carries the explicit
> sematic of a trademark?

I do like the idea... but...

I suspect that we'd end up with double registrations: trade/service-mark
XYZ would be registered in both .com and .tm.

Here's the rationale -- I'd have to register in .tm because to do
otherwise might be construed as an implicit statement that I'm not
protecting my trademark (in the same way that I would be weakening my mark
if I failed to put the proper indications in my advertisements.)

And I'd register in .com because that the cool place to be and it's a
cheap and sure-fire way of keeping anybody else out -- I do have a duty to
protect my mark wherever it appears and in whatever context. 

I'm also wondering about how a .tm would handle the existing (and future)
situation in which the same mark is used, without confusion, in different
areas of trade today.

In other words, how would we resolve the conflict between Delta Airlines,
Delta Plumbing, Delta Dental, ... for "delta.tm"?

		--karl--