Return to tldreport Forum - Message Thread - FAQ

Username: Anthony 2nd
Date/Time: Wed, November 15, 2000 at 4:53 AM GMT
Browser: Netscape Communicator V4.73 using Windows 95
Score: 5
Subject: The Sunrise period scorse highly

Message:
 

 
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!!)   
 


Message Thread:


Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Cookies Policy