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Username: challenge

Date/Time: Mon, September 10, 2001 at 10:40 PM GMT

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Subject: You do, then tell me this..

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Where do you draw the line? Who in a given country should own that country's gTLD name..
Is it the current government? The ministry of information? A prominent citizen?
How about cities within a country?
What about towns and municipalities?
Then what do you do with landmarks and the native languages? Give it all to the country too?
This is so ridiculous it is not even funny. It is even worse than the whole Trade Mark joke. Why even bother with an open medium let's close it up and make sure that anyone that can make any hint of a claim to a name file a case with WIPO.
A recent case in point was the ruling on worldcup.org, WIPO gave the name to FIFA (the Federation Internationale de Football). They completely ignored the fact that there is a "worldcup" event for close to 30 different sports and they figured hey FIFA is better than anyone else. Maybe the person who originally had the name acted in bad faith, but there is no way you can convince me that FIFA gets it by default.

These type of ad-hoc rules will make the soap-operas of surrogate children sound like Discovery Channel Documentaries.

Message Thread:

freeze on geographic names? — sfeibish, September 10 @ 4:04 PM (3/28)

Country .info names only — psbyowner, September 10 @ 10:27 PM (0/0)
geographic freeze? — gckorn, September 10 @ 8:28 PM (1/23)

Yes ICANN threw in a last-minute Rule...Here it is... — challenge, September 10 @ 8:36 PM (4/22)

How about country dot coms? — Srana, September 10 @ 9:56 PM (0/0)
Where can rule be found? — gckorn, September 10 @ 9:37 PM (0/0)
I beg to differ gentlemen, — Elvis, September 10 @ 9:33 PM (1/15)

You do, then tell me this.. — challenge, September 10 @ 10:40 PM (3/14)

Somebody with common-sense — Garry Anderson, September 11 @ 8:34 AM (1/3)

Not against free speech — Elvis, September 11 @ 8:59 AM (2/2)

Force of voice — Garry Anderson, September 11 @ 11:13 AM (0/0)
Contry name to the government? ..NO! — cello, September 11 @ 10:49 AM (0/0)

At least business interests are rational... — psbyowner, September 10 @ 10:55 PM (2/2)

Look at it this way — Elvis, September 10 @ 11:18 PM (0/0)
It's the label and stigma.... — challenge, September 10 @ 11:11 PM (0/0)

I raised this issue some time ago, they do have a genuine point on this. — Elvis, September 10 @ 10:53 PM (1/6)

Seen too many "Arnold" movies haven't we.. — challenge, September 10 @ 11:16 PM (2/5)

America.us or info.us — Garry Anderson, September 11 @ 8:53 AM (0/0)
And I thought you were going to go on about Arnold Layne, — Elvis, September 10 @ 11:21 PM (1/3)

Re- Arnold Layne — Elvis, September 10 @ 11:30 PM (1/2)

Chilling is fine, but... — challenge, September 10 @ 11:38 PM (1/1)

I don't disagree for the sake of it, — Elvis, September 10 @ 11:43 PM (0/0)

ISO Country Names — challenge, September 10 @ 8:57 PM (1/3)

Garry Anderson's nightmare! ROFLMAOLOL. — InternetAdvocate, September 10 @ 10:22 PM (2/2)

Cannot see it happening — Garry Anderson, September 11 @ 8:02 AM (0/0)
Points raised — Elvis, September 10 @ 10:34 PM (0/0)

Why? — Garry Anderson, September 10 @ 5:53 PM (2/2)

I think they are right on this — Elvis, September 10 @ 9:38 PM (0/0)
Yeah: and American locations are www.ci.location.ca.us... — psbyowner, September 10 @ 7:00 PM (0/0)

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