Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

[Dr Nii Narku Quaynor <quaynor@ncs.com.gh>]

Leo Smith wrote:
> 
> Hi Robert...
> Before acknowledging that 100,000 names are kept on speculation,
> shouldn't that be verified if it is to be used as a statistic in favor
> of the wait. When you mention that there are people using URLs for
> "hoarding, hijacking and speculation", I think we need to distinguish
> between two groups:
> 1) those who register a name they know to be a well known trademark
> name (such as pepsi.com) with the intention being to hold the URL out
> to ransom and collect money from Pepsi by selling the pepsi.com URL to
> Pepsi, and
> 2) those who register a name for their own corporate or private
> business use. In the real world companies register names regularly
> where the real intention is for future use, or simply to preclude a
> competitor from getting it.


These two groups may be pretty difficult to distinguish at the time
of registration ....