Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Albert Tramposch <0002082489@mcimail.com>]

Michael Dillon wrote:
>> 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.
>Not at all. If all new registrations, changed registrations and deleted
>registrations are published in a daily gazette then trademark owners will
>have only *ONE* place to look no matter how many gTLD's register 3LD's
>in a manner similar to .ALT.

Yes, of course, a single place to look is essential.  However, my point (perhaps
not well-stated) was that there would be an unlimited number of possible
infringing domain names that trademark owners would have to contend with.  If a
trademark owner goes to court to stop, say, ten infringing names, it could
then immediately be faced with an additional ten or twenty or a hundred more in
the additional TLDs.  Even if this is just a case of harrassment by some unhappy
third party, it still is a nightmare for the trademark owner.

Albert Tramposch
WIPO
IAHC member, speaking on my own behalf