Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

[Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>]

> The solution is for CORE/IAHC to *NOT* stack the deck but to merely make
> sure that the public information regarding domain name owners and their
> domains is easily and promptly accessible to the public. 
> 
> CORE/IAHC needs to say to trademark owners: We will not assist you in
> policing your trademarks, if you wish to police them then our registry
> information is readily accessible to you.
> 
> And CORE/IAHC needs to say to domain name registrants: We will not protect
> you from litigation, our only purpose is to serve as a public registry in
> which you can publish your claim for a domain name on a first-come first
> served basis.
> 
> Note the wording in that last paragraph. CORE/IAHC does not operate an
> authority which grants a licence to use a domain name. It is a publishing
> service that enables domain name owners to publish their claims. It merely
> collects and publishes the information necessary to identify the domain
> name owners and to communicate with them by snail mail, telephone, fax,
> email and DNS. CORE/IAHC is not the publisher, the domain name owners are.
> CORE/IAHC is the medium by which they publish.
> 
> Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
> Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
> http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael@memra.com

Someone's been reading our web pages on the eDNS registry we run here.

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