Re: [Ietf] New .mobi, .xxx, ... TLDs?
2004-04-29 15:07:28
On 29-apr-04, at 21:18, Tony Hain wrote:
This isn't true. No one is required by law to register their
trademark as
a domain name.
IANAL, but in my discussions with lawyers focused on trademark law, in
effect they are required. The perception that they are not defending
their
rights effectively means they abandon them.
Defending their trademark doesn't necessarily mean registering every
possible domain with the trademark in it, but it does usually mean
going after other people who register a domain with the trademark in
it. (Although there is always the slight problem that domain names are
globally unique while very few trademarks are.)
So far, I still haven't heard a _technical_ reason against these
TLD's.
The technical argument here is flattening of the name space with the
associated concentration higher up the tree.
So what angle hierarchy is desirable? Obviously a completely flat space
isn't good because the zones get too large, but a very deep space isn't
either as it takes more time to recurse through.
/flame-suit-on/ Rather than granting new TLDs, there should be an
effort to
deprecate the existing non-cc TLDs and move everyone out within 3
years. The
historical artifact of a failed experiment is no reason to continue
down
that path.
So what is the rationale for organizing ourselves based on our
respective countries? If I may borrow your suit for a minute, I have
another suggestion: no hard limits on TLDs, but every organization only
gets to have a domain name in one TLD. So the practice of registering
<domain>.* would have to end.
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