Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Albert Tramposch <0002082489@mcimail.com>]

Michael Dillon wrote:
>However, if you create the .ALT gTLD under the 3LD registration rules that
>I have proposed it is simply impossible for any mark holder to lock out
>other companies who have the same mark because the namespace begins to
>approach infinity. That's because in the .ALT proposal no one can gain
>exclusive use of an SLD and a particular string could be used at the third
>level in a very large number of SLD's.

Unfortunately, this proposal to help trademark owners can become a trademark
owner's nightmare:  that is, by making the number of spaces to police for
trademark infringement infinite.

The solution in the IAHC draft attempts to balance the need for access to the
DNS by trademark owners with the need to police the DNS for illegal uses of
trademarks by others.

Albert Tramposch
WIPO
IAHC member, speaking on my own behalf