Re: 60 day wait

["William M. Gilligan" <gill@oru.edu>]

        I understand what your saying, but the 60 day wait won't change
anything, it will just ensure that everyone will be waiting.... for someone
to take there name away from them. And then if that happens, reapplying for
another name and waiting again.
        At least now, I can use the name, and if someone doesn't like it,
wrestle with them until the outcome is decided. 
        Also, what if I get a name thru (because a company didn't look at
the 'pending names list') and then they come back and want the name. Do they
get it or has the 'law been laid'? We all know that if the company can sue,
it will and whatever 'laws' are in place they will be challenged and
probably changed. 
        I agree the present system needs reworking, but the wait is not the
answer.         Why not make a 'window of opportunity' for all companies to
submit - and reserve - their already tradmarked / registered names. They
won't need to use them, just get them held. That would answer all the
problems. Why, a fee could even be charged for this.
        Bill

At 08:14 AM 1/14/97 -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
>At 6:45 AM -0800 1/14/97, William M. Gilligan  <webmaster@lib.oru.edu> wrote:
>>Why not impose a system that is self policing. If someone uses a
>>trademark, let the infringed upon person / company sue. It will only
>>take one or two of these suits and the practice will stop.
>
>	The problem with that approach -- which is pretty much what we have
>today -- is that the holder of a domain name never has any assurance that
>someone won't come along and take it away from them.  You could argue that
>that is true with ANY use of a name, today, in the real world, but the
>Internet has changed the dynamic considerably.
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>	When you use a name, today, the population of potential challengers
>against you is quite limited, possibly as small as the county in which you
>use it, but certainly no larger than your country.  While 250 Million
>potential challengers is impressive, it's nothing like 4 billion.  The
>Internet makes every user of every name subject to 5 billion potential
>challengers.
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>d/
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