Re: Is domain name property? Round 2.

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Kent,

  First let me say I am supprised to see that we are of nearly like
minds on this issue.  >;)

Now for the rest of my comments...

Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 12:44:52AM +0100, Jim Dixon wrote:
> [...]
> > By ordinary sense I mean the sense in which the term is ordinarily
> > used.
> 
> The "ordinary" sense of the word is useless in this context.  It
> simply is not precise enough.

  Nor applicable.
> 
> > If I own a car I can drive it, sell it, trash it, do what I
> > like with it.
> 
> You most certainly can not "do what you like with it".  Your "right"
> to drive it, for example, is heavily constrained.  Your right to sell
> it is constrained, at least in the US by several conditions (eg, smog
> certificate).  Your right to "trash" it is also constrained.  In fact,
> when examined in detail, "ownership" of practically anything actually
> resolves to a set of explicit and implicit "rights" recognized by
> society.  The particular rights vary widely from object to object,
> place to place, and legal context to legal context.

  And all of these constraints are encoumpased in Law, here in the US,
as well as most of Europe.
> 
> Arguing about whether domain names are property is really an argument
> about whether the already vague, overloaded, and confused meaning of
> the word "property" should be expanded to apply to domain names.

  It really already is in Law, Kent. (See 1996 Telcom Act) and the
Virtual Properties act.  So I differ a bit with you here with respect
to Domain Names as property, more spicificaly Intellectual Property.
> 
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