I could not believe what I was
reading but this group made the following comment:"Efforts should be made to minimize
confusion with existing TLDs. Significantly, introducing names directly
competitive with .com may primarily duplicate the .com space in that space.
Names will be tied up in either UDRP processes, or legal battles, delaying and confusing
users."
MY COMMENTS: Where is the confusion???? This is more a provocative
statement that actual fact....Dot net has been in the name space as long as dot com
and you don't see business.com taking business.net through the UDRP process....C'mon
folks in reality it's the dot com generic domain name owners that do not want new
generic TLD's because it WILL compete with their name-space....The value of their
domain may even drop because it is longer "Scarce"....The comments that new TLD's
should not be like dot com's...shows all the reasons why groups like this further
illustrate the NEED for new tld's....One point...What kind of domain would compete
with a dot com....DOT WEB??? Dot web WOULD compete and knock dot com back all
the way to Virginia (humor)...In fact I am thinking asking IOD if they would start
selling T-Shirts (on IOD) that say that ::)....IN my view the comments by this group
basically say.."We don't want anything to compete with dot com...." So bring
on .shop and .banc???? Read Dr. Mueller's comments...a new tld MUST be able
to compete (be attractive)...Then if you read the posting by IPLAWYER he had the
foresight to wrap this argument ---with the suggestion that whatever new TLD comes
out that the TLD's should not be similiar...Therefore dot CO should not be approved
as it could be confused with Dot Com...Example...Business.com and Business.co....Hopefully
this settles that argument....