Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 12:24 PM -0500 1/9/97, Vince Wolodkin wrote:

> Leo Smith wrote:
> >
> > I personally believe that the number of lawyer letters
> > threatening legal action, and the number of lawsuits filed, over
> > trademark issues as they apply to domain names, will not be
> > effectively reduced (if at all) by the institution of a wait.
>

This waiting period creates a whole industry of lawyer letters
threatening legal action. The number of disputes will go *UP*, not
down, because the IAHC has created a mechanism to encourage disputes
right from the beginning of the application process.

> Staying out of it is the best bet, completely and irrevocably staying
> out of it.  Learn from NSI's mistake.  Right now you are repeating NSI's
> mistake.  You, like they, are believing that there is something you can
> do outside of normal legal processes to minimize lawsuits.
>

The IAHC could always design the name space properly in the first
place. This would take care of most of the "Symptoms".



Regards,

Simon

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