Re: An Open Letter to the IAHC

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 4:11 PM -0500 12/30/96, Vince Wolodkin wrote:

> Christopher Ambler wrote:
> >
> > >You know, that probably explains why there are no supermarkets or
> > >other food stores anymore. With the ability for just anyone at all to
> > >start a supermarket at any time selling identical products no one
> > >could make money, so everyone worldwide stopped selling food.
> >
> > That's not a good analogy, Perry, as supermarkets act as sellers of
> > branded goods. There is only on 'rice crispies' brand breakfast
> > cereal, and while there are imitators, they cannot use that name.
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Ambler
> > President, Image Online Design, Inc.
>
> Right, but any registry, excuse me -- supermarket can sell .web, err I
> mean "rice crispies".
>

That's not entirely true. Only authorized resellers are allowed to sell
certain branded goods to the public. Many more do illegally in the
"grey" markets (this runs from the corner convienience store to selling
US-licensed software overseas).

If you don't address this, the problem that emerges is that the grey
market will cover both the ISP domain name reseller market and the
domain name speculator/horder market. One market is legitimate and the
other isn't.

Regards,

Simon

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