Re: where the waiting period came from

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Carl Oppedahl allegedly said:
> 
> At 12:49 AM 01/02/97 -0500, John Leslie wrote:
[...]
> 
> Well, if someone (a "victim of infringement") has a gripe with a toothpaste
> brand name, or with the text content of a web site, they will simply have
> to go to court (hopefully preceded by asking nicely, etc.)  I can't see any
> reason why domain names should be special in this regard.

How about: "domain names are addresses, not names."  Do you know of 
any cases where street names have had to be changed because of 
trademark issues?  I immediately think of a nearby street named "Apple 
Court", but I'm sure there are many many street names that conflict 
with a trademark somewhere.

It's an extension of the idea that two businesses can have the same 
trademark if they don't compete in the same arena.  DNS is a 
different arena from any business -- like an individual human name, 
it is the individual name of a network entity.

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