Re: 60 day waiting peroid.

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 6:48 PM -0800 12/20/96, Dave Crocker wrote:

> At 4:16 PM -0800 12/20/96, Michael Dillon wrote:
> >This means that the registry acts on behalf of potential disputants for
> >60 days and against name registrants. This is not a neutral role.
>
> Question about a tradeoff:
>
> 1.  You register a name and begin to use it immediately.  You "invest" in
> that name significantly, even if only to place it on your business cards.
> Along comes someone contesting your use and take you to court and forces
> you to give it up.  Start over, having wasted time and money, and having to
> re-inform folks of your new/next name.
>
> 2.  You register a name and wait 2 months.   You are challenged and have to
> give up the name.  YOu have little invested, since you haven't started
> using it.
>
> 	I would choose 2.  What makes it so onerous?
>

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Simon

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