Re: TradeMarks classification works, and also ".tm" TLD

[Antony Van Couvering <avc@interport.net>]

At 02:38 AM 7/27/97 -0700, Benjamin Azevedo wrote:
>Dear Antony,
>
>Trademark classification is complex but works. Just like ".tm" TLD.
>


Benjamin,

Of course it works.  So do IP addresses.  Dragging things works too, but
everyone prefers wheels.  

It's just that no-one will use trademark classification schemes.  They're
too long, too unattractive, too hard for people to remember (gee, which was
it, class 35 or 36?).

The .us domain has a system that absolutely gets rid of name collisions,
with very very few exceptions (and none that I've ever heard of).  The
locality-based designations now in force in the .us domain are shorter,
more intuitive, and easier to remember than anything you've proposed.

You know what?  No-one uses them, because they're too long, not intuitive,
and hard to remember.

So where does that leave schemes for redoing domain names as
trademark-classifications?  Nowhere.

Antony
NetNames USA, speaking personally
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