Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

> ... except one that would
> give the right to some trademark owners to use their trademark in the domain
> name and deny it to others (that is, first-come, first-served)

Of course the same right would have to be accorded to those who hold human
names, corporate names, partnership names, association names, church
names, etc. 

There is absolutely no reason to give trademark use of a name any priority
over other uses of a name beyond what is currently recognized by the laws
of the various nations.

		--karl--