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I currently have a domain registered in the .com TLD.
A few weeks ago, I recieved a piece of snail mail from eNIC, a domain registrar representing
the .cc TLD. In essence, it offered to register the domain I had in .com in
the .cc domain for $100. The risk of not doing so, of course, was that my trademark
would be registered by somebody else in the .CC TLD. How many different TLD's
am I supposed to register in to protect a trademark? It is my belief that undifferentiated
top level domains add nothing since organizations are already registering their domains
in .COM, .NET, and .ORG simultaneously. New undifferentiated TLD's will just
add one more since many companies will be unwilling to let their name go in any namespace
they can snap up. New TLD's should be added only if you can positively answer the
question 'would anyone rather register here and *not* in .com?'
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