Re: We need a separated ".tm" Yes Yes Finally

[Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>]

On July 25, 1997 at 09:17 ooblick@netpolicy.com (Mikki Barry) wrote:
 > > Barry Shein wrote: 
 > > > This unworkable idea has to be disabused every week or so, doesn't it. 
 > > > -- 
 > > >         -Barry Shein 
 > >  
 > > Yes, and apart from the many other reasons, it's too bad that someone 
 > > from Turkmenistan (.tm) isn't here to constantly remind us so. 
 > >  
 > > Robert 
 > 
 > Since this idea has come up so often, doesn't it deserve serious discussion, 
 > rather than dismissing it out of hand?  If .tm is unavailable, how about .reg?  
 > 
 > 
 > 

Who gets ford.reg? Ford Motor Company or Ford Modelling Agency?

If Ford Modelling gets ford.reg does Ford Motor Co have a legitimate
complaint?

How do you resolve that case? I don't think the usual ok one gets
ford-motor.reg and the other gets ford-modelling.reg works, if for no
other reason than they could do that right now in the .com domain so
leads to the question "ok, so why are we here?"

The problem is that trademarks are subdivided by business activity,
they're not unique across business activities.

As an owner, operator and founder of a business called "The World (r)"
this fact does occasionally attract my attention.

The proposal to merely divvy it up geographically (e.g., that only
int'l trademarks get .reg) addresses only one of the important
dimensions. Both Fords above are certainly internationally recognized
trademarks, by the proposed scheme both would have a legitimate claim
to "ford.reg" and we'd be back where we started.

Unfortunately such examples are fairly common.

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