Re: Thread 2: 60-day issue

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Perry E. Metzger allegedly said:
> 
> 
> Carl Oppedahl writes:
> > >*Might* help them later.  And it isn't clear that a waiting period 
> > >would help any more than a pure publication period.
> > 
> > We have a publication period now, right?  Anybody who wants to can check
> > Whois to see that a domain name has been added, right?
> 
> Yup. I keep asking the question how a publication period is in any way
> significant. I mean, what is a '60 day publication period' given that
> the information remains fully available after 60 days, and why is it
> different from the extant system? I haven't gotten an answer I find
> satisfying yet.

The information concerning trademark holders is fully available after 
the contention period.  The information about DBAs is fully available 
(in my case, in the county courthouse).  This does not invalidate 
their publication periods, now does it?  What makes a publication 
period work is that it is in a distinguished place, designated for 
the purpose.



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