Re: 60 day waiting period

[Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>]

Carl Oppedahl wrote:
> 
> At 11:23 PM 01/12/97 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
> >>
> >> At 06:52 PM 01/12/97 -0700, Terry O'Neill wrote:
> >> >
> >> >As a web presence provider, my company is adamantly opposed to a 60 day
> >> >waiting period for domain names.
> >> >
> >> >The 60 day policy means that the minimum implementation time for a website
> >> >with an xxxx.yyy domain name is 60 days, strictly because of the 60 day
> >> >policy, regardless of our capability to complete all other phases of
> >> >development much more quickly.
> >>
> >> [other arguments omitted]
> >>
> >> Why fixate on the first 60 days of the life of a domain name?  Why not
> >> think instead of the subsequent five years?  With the 60-day period in
> >> place, a domain name that survives the 60-day period is much more likely to
> >> survive the subsequent five years.
> >
> >Prove it.
> >
> >Go get declaratory statements from all 180-odd court national court systems
> >which supposedly would "pay heed" to this.
> >
> >With all due respect, Carl, you're blowing smoke.  You have absolutely no
> >basis for your position on this other than your beliefs.  Which, when you
> >consider disrupting the business activities of *hundreds of thousands of
> >firms*, isn't enough.
> 
> I am sure you know better than I do about how courts work, and more than I
> do about domain names and trademarks.  My credentials are far skimpier than
> yours, I am sure.  I have really very little to offer, merely being the
> first lawyer ever to sue (successfully, as it turns out) on behalf of a
> domain name owner to fight to get to keep a domain name.
> 
> Remind me what your proposal is for the handling of trademark disputes?
> And kindly provide the declaratory statements from the 180-odd national
> court systems which show that your proposal will work better then IAHC's.

My proposal is to stay out of it and let the 180-odd national court
systems decide.  One that you yourself used to espouse Carl.  Now, you
have decided that it isn't enough to stay out of the dispute.  NSI
favored the trademark owner.  You, for some obscure reason, favor the
domain holder.  I personally don't care.  

Vince Wolodkin