Re: Thread 2: 60-day issue

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Carl Oppedahl allegedly said:
> 
[...]
> We have a publication period now, right?  Anybody who wants to can check
> Whois to see that a domain name has been added, right?  Or they can
> download the root-level server file (eight or ten megabytes, right?) and
> compare it with yesterday's? 

The idea of a publication period is that you have a distinguished 
place explicitly designated as the location where new domain names 
are published for purpose of trademark review.

> And indeed the publication period we have now
> is one that lasts forever.  

That is one of the main reasons it is useless for our purposes.  
Another reason is that the stated purpose of the whois data is not 
for trademark review, but rather to make contact data available for 
technical problems.

[apparently obligatory NSI bash deleted :-)]

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