Re: New TLDs and Registry charters

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 12:40 PM -0500 12/10/96, Vince Wolodkin wrote:

> 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.
>

Won't work.

.com.us is flat and doesn't account for the many trademark categories
in the US.


Simon

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