Re: Thread 2: 60-day issue

[Daniel Kaplan <dkaplan@terra-nova.fr>]

>here's the problem -
>
>  Joe's Grocery owns (for example) buyfoodonline.com, which they have
>had for over a year now. They do good business selling groceries to
>neighbourhood clients online and having them delivered. They have a
>chain of grocery stores up and down the state which gives them a
>very good area of coverage.
>
>  Jane's Grocery sees this and realizes that because of a great idea
>that Jane had last night, she could do it much much better. She
>applies for betterfoodonline.biz, but is told that she cannot use
>it for 60 days. Jane now has a 60-day wait before she can compete,
>through no fault of her own. She will immediately question the
>registrar as to why they are placing this restraint on her trade.
>Jane has no existing domain from which to add a 3LD, so that
>avenue is not open. Jane knows that a random domain is not only
>hard to remember, but will be changed in 60-days anyway, giving her
>no options.

I'm puzzled by this argument. You mean, Jane takes less than 60 days in 
designing her web site, putting her catalog online, devising the 
necessary arrangements to process orders and payments online, prepare her 
advertising campaign?.. I'd like to meet this Jane.

>  If Joe's Grocery finds out about this, and they very well might since
>they watch the 60-day publication, they have 60-days to mount a
>defence to competition. Now Jane is angry with the registrar for
>unknowingly aiding her competition.

Now, this sounds more serious. Anyone has an answer?

Daniel




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