On 13/4/17 8:47 pm, Greg Shatan wrote:
However, I don't think number 2 qualifies as gaming or abuse -- except to the extent the trademark owner is being gamed or abused. Indeed, one of the failed assumptions of the New gTLD Program seems to have been that trademark owners would buy even more defensive registrations than they did.
So there's nothing wrong with a company that has a trademark for computers sunrise registering that trademark in a gTLD that relates to fruit on the strength of its computer trademark, locking out those who would actually use that domain name to sell fruit? Sounds like abuse to me. -- Jeremy Malcolm Senior Global Policy Analyst Electronic Frontier Foundation https://eff.org jmalcolm@eff.org Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161 :: Defending Your Rights in the Digital World :: Public key: https://www.eff.org/files/2016/11/27/key_jmalcolm.txt PGP fingerprint: 75D2 4C0D 35EA EA2F 8CA8 8F79 4911 EC4A EDDF 1122