RE: "Claiming" a TLD

["Palmer, John" <jpalmer@utilinc.com>]

No - a service mark is the marriage of a word or phrase (or image) with
a specific product. Now, one cannot copyright a 
word like EARTH or USA, but one can have those a service marks for
domain registration. AGN-DNS has 3 service
marks for its top level domain service: .EARTH(sm), .USA(sm) and .Z(sm)

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stephen Cole [SMTP:sjcole@iinet.net.au]
> Sent:	Monday, December 01, 1997 11:13 AM
> To:	gtld-discuss@gtld-mou.org
> Subject:	"Claiming" a TLD
> 
> >
> > > How does one "claim" a TLD?
> > [Palmer, John]
> >
> > gTLD's can be service marks. .EARTH, .USA and .Z are examples.
> >They cannot be used by anyone else
> > but their owner unless given permission by that owner.
> >
> So, do you mean to say I just have to register, say, ".dog" as a
> service
> mark and  just hold on long enough, and then one day the dog-loving
> world
> will beat a path to my door? Hmmm.
> 
> 
> Stephen Cole
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