Re: 60 day waiting period

[Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>]

At 05:07 PM 12/20/96 -0800, Rick H. Wesson wrote:

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>
>> Yes, I think the idea here is that at least the trademark owner has some
>> advance warning if a truly infringing domain name arises, and during the 60
>> days they can rush to court and get it blocked.  This shields the
>> registration authority from concerns of being responsible for money damages
>> for misconduct of the domain name owner, since the actual use would not
>> have started yet.
>
>Sounds like a business oppertunity for an organization that notifies all
>interested parties of a name, that they might have some right to, is being
>regestered.

Oh, yes, absolutely.  And, fortunately, there will be competition for this
service.  

>on a side note, who inherits the $50 a year that is being collected on
>.com, .net, and .org once the NSI contract expires? Or will these currently
>allocated domains then become free for life, once any gTLD regestrie is
>able to regester SLDs in .com, .net, and .org?

I assume that the database administrator (the custodian of the Repository,
to use IAHC's terminology) will be compensated for its operating expenses.
Those expenses (I suspect only a dollar or two per year) would be passed
along to the registration authorities to be covered in some fair way by the
domain name owners.

A comparison can be made to the way that 800 numbers are handled in the US.
 It's possible to go to AT&T or MCI or Sprint to get an 800 number, and
what they do is add a record to a database administered by some neutral
contractor.  The expenses of that neutral contractor are not great, but
they get covered somehow.