They seems to count a sunrise period as a good thing.It wouldn't work.
By way
of example:
ICANN.web, ICANN.biz and ICANN.info could all be registered by ICANN
assuming that ICANN is a trade mark.
ICANN.nom ICANN.per etc could not because
these are restricted domains and not for organisations such as ICANN.
ICANN-fails.web
ICANN-spoils.web ICANN-cocks-up.web and so on could not be pre-registered by ICANN.
Furthermore,
if the five letters ICANN are used in another industry then they could challenge
the legaility of the sunrise period anyway as ICANN is properly sited at ICANN.org
and not at every ICANN site that there is.
If individuals are going to be stupid
enough to tread on other people's toes when they register domains then they will
get whats coming to them. The sunrise plan aggresses only a fraction of the potential
issues (i.e. the trademark disputes) yet creates a whole range of new problems for
example if someone had trademarked the phrase "ICANN.INFO" then would they have rights
to the site over and above ICANN?
ICANN.com ICANN.net
and ICANN.org take you to this site.
ICANN.co.uk actually allows you to pre-register
the new gTLDS for a $52.50 admin fee plus a $122 registration fee.
Hold on one
minute, thats not the same ICANN!!!
Quite obvious really isn't it?
And we worked
that out without the aid of a sunrise period.
Now to really prove this point take
a look at ICANNT.com,ICANNT.ORG and YOUCANN.COM - none of which would have been prevented
by a sunrise period anyway. (ICANNT.ORG is actually run by TUCOWS!!)