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Re: "Clash" of site names

Well, the example given is a scam, but the question is real.

  What would be the effect if the namespace was seen to be ``just
names''.  Would not the weakest similarity suffice to cause
anger in the heart of a trademark owener?  Or in the heart of a
non-commercial international body like Save the Children?

   I suspect (I haven't appreciated this yet, but I'm going to jum to a
conclusion) that the Domain Name System contains ``leaf'' domains,
whose name id of great importance to them, and ``interior'' domains,
which are navigational in nature.
   And I fear that confusing the tw owill lead us to an unpleasant
end.

--dave
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