Anybody writing a user orientated executive summary of the key implications of IDN's for holders of second and third level domains? Christian On 28 Dec 2009, at 09:58, Joly MacFie wrote:
He's a little miffed, saying things like
WTF!! how is this going to work???
Hi, it is weird. TC, URS or UDRP can only handle the conflicts between trademarks and domain names. Neither "mobileappstore" nor "手机应用商店<http://%E6%89%8B%E6%9C%BA%E5%BA%94%E7%94%A8%E5%95%86%E5%BA%97.cn/>" seem trademarkable for obvious descriptiveness and non-distinctiveness. Neither do I believe that either domain name has acquired the secondary meaning through use so as to suffice for any trademark claim. If no trademark involved, no trademark measure applicable at all.
Hong
Absolutely. Although since mobile apps are one of the fastest growing sources of revenue on the net right now, it's almost as valuable as having something as generic as business.com etc..
Why I posted was to show that, while we have all been putting a lot of thought into new gTLDs, it could be that the already commenced rollout of second level IDNs, particularly in the .com arena, is going to cause as much of a ruction.
This was a tech-savvy fellow shocked! to find out that he had by no means nailed down the name even in .com. He had not considered the possibilty of writing the same word in a different character set, let alone in translation.
I'm sure he's not the only one who will be coming to the realization that the Latin character set is by no longer global in reach in this day and age, and we will hear many more howls of pain. Meanwhile more $$ for verisign etc..
In answer to your question of motive Alan, it wasn't clear, but I think it was very likely to offer a deal, even if just to explore a possible partnership in finding deep pocketed buyer.
With the new restrictions on .cn registrations we're likely to see a lot more chinese .com speculative activity one would imagine.
What At-Large could do is perhaps review ICANN's published guidelines on this, and their accessability. When the guy posted, the only references in response, were a couple of newspaper articles and wikipedia.
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