At 15/09/2009 07:32 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
<<but my understanding is that anyone with a trade-mark to preserve tends to have VERY large portfolio of defensive registrations.>>
The brand owners I know would be ecstatic if it were harder and slower to register domains. Their trademark portfolio changes over timescales of years, and in their perfect world, domains would change just as slowly.
That was not the substance of my comment. My ONLY point was that saying that TODAY, large companies typically only have 1 or 2 domain names, or at most one per top-level domain was both inaccurate and likely to get brand owners and IP people to pounce on you. I specifically said that these same people would be strong supporters of many of the ideas we are talking about. Alan