Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 29-apr-04, at 21:18, Tony Hain wrote: > > >> This isn't true. No one is required by law to register their > >> trademark as > >> a domain name. > > > IANAL, but in my discussions with lawyers focused on trademark law, in > > effect they are required. The perception that they are not defending > > their > > rights effectively means they abandon them. > > Defending their trademark doesn't necessarily mean registering every > possible domain with the trademark in it, but it does usually mean > going after other people who register a domain with the trademark in > it. Agreed, but given the reality of legal fees the cheapest way to defend a trademark is to register it in every domain. > (Although there is always the slight problem that domain names are > globally unique while very few trademarks are.) While they are unique within the context of each registered country. > > >> So far, I still haven't heard a _technical_ reason against these > >> TLD's. > > > The technical argument here is flattening of the name space with the > > associated concentration higher up the tree. > > So what angle hierarchy is desirable? Obviously a completely flat space > isn't good because the zones get too large, but a very deep space isn't > either as it takes more time to recurse through. A good research topic ;) gut feel says 3-5, but YMMV > > > /flame-suit-on/ Rather than granting new TLDs, there should be an > > effort to > > deprecate the existing non-cc TLDs and move everyone out within 3 > > years. The > > historical artifact of a failed experiment is no reason to continue > > down > > that path. > > So what is the rationale for organizing ourselves based on our > respective countries? Trademark law is already aligned that way. > If I may borrow your suit for a minute, I have > another suggestion: no hard limits on TLDs, but every organization only > gets to have a domain name in one TLD. So the practice of registering > <domain>.* would have to end. And nobody can register more than one domain per year. This would have the side effect of slowing down the benefactors of the spammers. Tony _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf