A republic style government is only as good as the
trust it has between it's people and the government. If the Dept of Commerce allows
this agreement to stand, then I fear that everything I fought for while serving in
the military was for not. Hear me out. It has to start somewhere.
The erosion of trust. I may be off topic a bit here, but the taking of dot
org is no different that a tyrannical government controlling flow of trade. This
is a communist fundament belief, that they KNOW better than you! Do they? It
is time to stop Verisign...
Another contentious issue while not connected
to this "dot org gate", is with the new TLDs. They plan to institutute a TM
protection scheme not recognized by any court in the US or in any other country for
that matter...That is the Sunrise. If they institutute this scheme, they will
in a sense change TM law. For the Sunrise, will make it easy for someone to
claim absolute control over a domain, by simply having a piece of paper and a stamp
(normal TM law is says, you must police your marks, and that you must use the mark..if
you don't then you lose the right to use the TM...Not the case with the Sunrise..you
keep the TM'd domain). The only recourse if you wanted to challenge the owner
of the domain would be through WIPO...Not your own courts (you can, but right now
WIPO is supreme). That is why the princple of: First Come, First Serve,
is so vital to a capitalistic economy. It (the first come, first serve principle)
mirrors how capitalism works. You have an idea, if your the first one, then
you shall reap the rewards. However you must be prepared to defend your mark,
ONLY AFTER you have laid your "stake in the ground"...Not before.....The Sunrise
is based on communism.....A mechanism controls the flow of trade and goods...Not
the market!!!
Good day....I hope I've got you thinking about this...Do I?
Gregory