Re: Gabe Battista says... (was Re: 60 Day wait..NSI case history)

[Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>]

At 11:50 AM 01/17/97 -0500, Vince Wolodkin wrote:

>So, what do ya think Gabe's been smoking? :-)

>> Gabe Battista quoted from USA Today
>> http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/ncoppf.htm
>> 
>> "Of the more than 800,000 domain-name registrants, Network Solutions
>> has been involved as a named party in 18 lawsuits (.002% of registered
>> domain names), a clear majority filed by trademark owners alleging
>> contributory infringement on the part of NSI. Without our policy, which
>> recognizes dispute resolution is a matter between the two claimants and
>> which buys time for them to achieve resolution, there would be many
>> more lawsuits than 18 filed by trademark owners."
>> 
>> [Gabe Battista is the CEO of Network Solutions Inc. of Herndon, Va. NSI
>> runs InterNIC.]

I would not have phrased it that way, but yes the fact is that from this
statement by Mr. Battista, it is clear that he is not fully in touch with
the legal realities of NSI's policy.  That would be humorous, but for the
fact that his being out of touch probably contributes to NSI's being out of
touch.  And NSI being out of touch is bad for the Internet community, since
blunders by NSI harm hundreds of thousands of people.

If NSI were merely one of several companies sharing the COM domain, I would
not be nearly so concerned about NSI's and Mr. Battista's being out of touch.