Actually there are two discussion here. Karl is trying to solve one problem : That under US trademark laws, as a trademark owner, there are case precedences that if you do not enforce your trademark, by default, you lose it. You are talking about another problem : That how does a trademark owner have "rights" on a domain name registrations under gTLD. There are existing procedure and processes like UDRP that already handling it. -James Seng
I would certainly agree that is a good beginning. However I have a question or two and your are the expert here.
How would this scale? How does jurisdiction overlap in terms of the intended users of the second level IDN's? This is not considering malicious behavior.
What stops me in another country from deliberately imposing on a US registered trademark. I suspect this would the also fall under the Madrid Protocol? Or not?
I guess I am opening up a can of worms.
Derek
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