I am not a lawyer, but I have several questions.1. What about several firms share
one trademark name? There are many words trademarked by more than one firms (as long
as the firms do not have the same business). How do you decide which firm has the
right to register the domain name?
2. Some firms registered their trademark not
for the words but for the design (the generic words cannot be registered).
3.
What about the trademarks from other countries instead of the US. Who decide these
trademarks being registered or not.
4. I bet you that the fist day of the registration
of the new upper level domain will be a mess. It is very likely that the computer
will be totally shut down. I know some people have prepared hundreds of thousands
of names to register. I do not think that the server of NS will be able to handle
that traffic. Everybody knows that the premium domain names similar to the ones that
have been sold for millions dollars will last for a couple of hours. A good example
was a so-called one-hour free domain registration by a New York based company. It
was a total disaster. Nobody was able to get into its system. It is strangely
that no one has mentioned this problem afterwards.
5. What about these domain
registration companies? Are they going to take care of their customers or register
their own domain names? They can register millions of domain names for themselves.
6. There are some countries' domain names open to any one to register. Why do
some firms not use these upper level domains? Some small countries have only several
thousand people. They will never be able to use all the domains. I would say that
increasing the new UDNs would implicate the problems and make the current situation
worse. I wish ICANN would add .BEST, .TOP, or .EST. Then, we will begin another round
of gold digging wave.
Competition is the nature of business. Anyone can image what
will happen if one day the City of New York suddenly pronounces that anyone can come
to the Central Park to grab a piece of land for free.
If we really want to solve
the domain shortage problem, the only way we can do is to randomly assign an IP number
to anyone who wants a domain name and you have to type these numbers to get into
the Internet. In that way, we all will have piece. Instead of frantically rush to
register our domain names, we concentrate on developing our businesses.