Trademark problems are handled in a highly unfair way.
Let
me give you an example:About 5 years ago I discussed with one of the biggest creditcard
companies in Switzerland the possibility of getting a contract for creditcard online
transactions through the Internet.
I was not possible.
You know why?
a. They
did not even have such a contract nor where they ready to write one.
b. They thought
that the Internet would never become an important sales-place.
c. Internet projects
were not interesting for them at all.
WHO WOULD GIVE ME THAT ANSWER TODAY?
Of
course nobody.
But it may serve as an example to show you the following:
Had
I registered - 10 years ago (or in Switzerland .ch 5 years ago) the domain name:
sun.com,
siemens.com or visa.ch, no one would have talked about that and no trademark issue
would have been started.
The internet was simply NOT regarded as INTERESTING at
that stage.
Today, it is regarded as interesting.
But does this give a right
to abuse the internet for my own (trademark) interests??
I don't think so.
I
can well understand, why people TODAY want their trademarks to be respected in the
internet, but as they only utter their wish now, AFTER IT BECAME A FAMEOUS PLATFORM,
it is certainly a bit selfish to have others (the Internet-community and even pioneers)
suffer for it.
We cleary need a new gtld .REG (or several gtlds, as: .1 - .49)
to solve that problem.
But no trademark discussions concerning .com, .net, and
.org gtld please!
I am a trademark holder myself, but still I have enough common
sense NO TO MAKE LAWS OUT OF MY OWN DESIRE.
Thank you!