Re: registrar charging $30,000 for "platinum" pre-registration

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

Kent and all,

Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 13, 1997 at 07:23:56PM +0000, Jeff Williams wrote:
> > Kent,
> >
> >   I think you missed my jist here.  I was under the understanding that
> > you did not consider a Domain Name used by anybody to be associated
> > with Intellectual property rights at all.  Mayba I was mistaken.  >;)
> > Please advise.
> 
> You were mistaken.  I "own" songbird.com; I have a registered
> trademark for "songbird"; I like the name, I value the name, I use it
> in business, and I want to protect it.  I also want to protect the
> domain name.  Furthermore, I think it is transparently clear and
> indisputable to anyone who thinks that domain names have value, and
> that value intersects the realm of intellectual property law.

  I am hartened to here that I was mistaken on your possition
on this point.  >;)
> 
> Of course, IP law isn't perfect, domain names do have unique
> characteristics, and nobody, including the IAHC, has perfect policies.
> But imperfect compromise is frequently the way things are in the real
> world.  Nothing happens if you let a demand for perfection become a
> total roadblock.

  I agree that demanding perfection is not realistic, of course. 
However
the IAHC/gTLD-<oU plan or process is very very far from even being
adaquate to meet current demands, non the less the demands of the
DNS structure of the internet in the near future.  The points and
solutions/ideas to make it become more adaquate have been posted
on this and the gtld-discuss list over and over again, with little
acknowledgment form the drafters of the gTLD-MoU or CORE-MoU.  This
is paramount to ignorance or just too stubborne to listen and
consider thoughtfully at all by those drafters.  SO I would
say, as many others have also said this is surely far from any
thing near to demanding perfection.
> 
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