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Re: New TLDs and Registry charters

Vince Wolodkin wrote:
> > > > 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.

  This is substantially how it works in the .ca domain: if you have
a federal registration, you can be in .ca, an Ontario registration
and you can be in .on.ca, and so on.

--dave
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