Re: New TLDs and Registry charters

[john@netword.com (John Young)]

Two additional questions:

1.	How about two US holders of identical federal trademark registrations?
2.	How about a mulitnational business; what tld does that go in?

John Young

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> From: Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>
> To: joe@spiderweb.com
> Cc: newdom@vrx.net; DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET;
iahc-discuss@iahc.org; tmcghan@gill-simpson.com
> Subject: Re: New TLDs and Registry charters
> Date: Tuesday, December 10, 1996 12:40 PM
> 
> Joseph A. Falejczyk wrote:
> > 
> > > > From:          Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>
> > >
> > > > Anyway, lets say I look up xyz.com, I would get back my local(.US)
> > > > xyz.com.  This immediately could satisfy lots of international
> > > > trademark disputes.  In addition, though I hadn't mentioned it
> > > > before, a Maryland company and a Virginia company both holding
local
> > > > trademarks could be xyz.com.va.us and xyz.com.md.us.
> > > >
> > > gee, vince, I wish I'd thought of that!     ;-}
> > >
> > 
> > Good effort, but...what if xyz.com company in Virginia has a Federal
> > trademark??
> 
> No problem, then they are xyz.com.us.  Since they have the federal
> trademark, no other xyz but them can have xyz.com.us.
> 
> Vince