Re: [NA-Discuss] Domain-name abuse proliferates
<<but my understanding is that anyone with a trade-mark to preserve tends to have VERY large portfolio of defensive registrations.>> Yes, but they should not have to. <<And there is no point if irritating constituencies who might otherwise be strong supporters of the type of effort we are discussing.>> I don't think this would irritate the brand owners. Much of their efforts are spent in determining the true ownership of typosquatted domains, this would cut to the chase.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Domain-name abuse proliferates From: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> Date: Tue, September 15, 2009 11:04 am To: NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> In the interest of not hurting a good argument with bad data, I would suggest that this statement not be made. I do not have a real clue how many domains a typical multi-million dollar company owns, but my understanding is that anyone with a trade-mark to preserve tends to have VERY large portfolio of defensive registrations. And there is no point if irritating constituencies who might otherwise be strong supporters of the type of effort we are discussing. Alan At 15/09/2009 10:24 AM, Garth Bruen at KnujOn wrote:
Consider this. How many domains does a multi-million dollar company buy? 1 maybe 2. Maybe one for each gTLD and ccTLD, that's still less than 300.
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<<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. R's, John
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
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