Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

[Robert Shaw <robert.shaw@itu.int>]

Leo Smith wrote:

> There will be a tremendous amount of inconvenience and hassle endured by
> the wait-ers. By all counts, less than four tenths of one percent of users
> would ever be affected by any claim of trademark infringement...So why put

Another reason for the 60 day waiting period is to minimize intentional hoarding,

hijacking and speculation in domain names. 

 

This is a problem much larger than most realize. 

 

For example, in November 96, of about 700,000 DN registrations, NSI has estimated 

that 50,000 to 100,000 were being held by speculators. So the problems are somewhat 

larger than one might think.

 

Robert

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Robert Shaw (shaw@itu.int)
Advisor, Global Information Infrastructure
International Telecommunication Union (http://www.itu.int)
Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland

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