Re: 60 day waiting period

[Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>]

At 11:52 AM 01/13/97 -0500, Vince Wolodkin wrote:

>Carl Oppedahl wrote:
>> 
>> At 11:23 PM 01/12/97 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:

>> >> 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.  

I don't know why you say "used to espouse".  I made my recommendations many
months ago (you can read them at <http://www.patents.com/nsi/iip.sht>) and
they still stand.

My only reason for posting in connection with the 60-day IAHC proposal is
that people are attacking it and many of the attacks are, in my view,
unjustified.

>Now, you have decided that it isn't enough to stay out of the dispute.  

Sorry, but you're wrong about what I have decided.  Whether a registration
authority follows my recommendation, or follows IAHC's recommendation, in
either case the RA is staying out of the dispute.

>NSI favored the trademark owner.  You, for some obscure reason, favor the
>domain holder.  

No, I am sorry but you are mistaken about that.  I don't favor either one.