Comments on: WSJ: Companies Are Protesting New Domain Extensions

By: Empedocles

Empedocles — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:49:13 +0000

MHB
United States of America is a party to the Madrid Protocol, The WIPO-administered Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks offers a route to trademark protection in multiple countries. The fact that a small number of trademark abusers are located outside the US, have false whois or are untraceable and/or non-collectable is true but that does not mean we do not abide by and update the existing international rule of law to this digital generation. National TM attorneys will have to be trained to deal with the technology that has no national trade borders but will uphold the national rule of law through the existing international agreements.

There is no sense in “HAVE to register every valuable trademark in every extension” ICANN would keep on selling a virtual plot for as long as the admin costs were covered and domains keep watering down the value of the .com / country code brand
Updating the existing national laws to deal with technology that has no trade borders through international trade agreements is what will happen.
It seems to me that CADNA is growing as professional organisation because it has become a necessity, TM’ s registered by large companies or individuals will be protected, generics will not be issued with trademarks.
The domain dot com & country code brand, national / international brand names will be all the public and search engines take note of until whenever protocols change.
MHB It is not good enough to say he gets away with it so should I.

By: BullS

BullS — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:42:59 +0000

Yea , I like my extension…

mydomain dot bullshitwebsites

Companies need to need to figure a way to market their products better and education is the key.

By: Enrico S.

Enrico S. — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:41:59 +0000

I agree with Mike. It is till the wild west out there on the current extensions. These new ones just move us several steps backwards. Creating a predictable, stable domain environment, including continued disincentives for cybersquatting, move the domain market towards higher levels of legitimacy. More extensions just moves us back towards instability on trademark protection issues.

By: MHB

MHB — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:08:46 +0000

Empedocles

First of all most of the really abusive trademark abusers are located outside the US, have false whois and are basically untraceable and/or uncollectable.

So the first letter gets no response as does the second, so the trademark holder than has to file a UDRP and get a default judgment at a costs of thousands of dollars per domain.

Therefore most find they HAVE to register every valuable trademark in every extension, although they have no use or need for them.

Although very expensive, its cheaper than paying their attorney to send out letters and file suits and UDRP for hundreds or thousands of domains

By: Empedocles

Empedocles — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:39:00 +0000

MBH I do not understand your comment.
my post ref “registered TM’s with all the rights in law originally attributed to them, I do not need to register any domain extensions” Why should Microsoft register more domains ? The first TM infringement letter is a warning, the second will include costs (fees)

By: GPS

GPS — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:17:41 +0000

Heidi –

Your library/bookstore concept is already in place.

Using your specific examples on health, auto or car-related info, check out:

health.com
auto.com
cars.com

I think you’ll find what you’re looking for.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:06:25 +0000

and I agree with MHB — we do not need any more tlds… we need more clear rules and better control over the existing space. doh!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:04:49 +0000

Heidi… you are kidding?

.travel sucks

.eu sucks

.mobi sucks

…everything else that will come if it shall won’t get far

By: Gazzip

Gazzip — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:58:57 +0000

Sorry, I meant ICANN

By: Gazzip

Gazzip — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:55:43 +0000

Good, I hope more companies follow, its a silly idea and waaay to hard to put into action.

The main people that will benefit if they go ahead with it are Verizon, Lawyers, Parking companies and squatters.

..either way I don’t think it’s much of a threat to .com and ccTLD’s