My initial comment that spurred Alan's comment is apparently misunderstood. Brands would probably only want or need a handful of domains, they are being FORCED to by bundles of typo-squatted versions of their trademarks. I would like to reduce that need. In regards to whois, many brands have spent considerable time and money to reveal who owned a squatted domain only to find it was a Registrar or someone affiliated with a Registrar. Full disclosure on commercial whois would cut to the chase and make WIPO proceedings a little quicker.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Domain-name abuse proliferates From: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> Date: Tue, September 15, 2009 9:22 pm To: NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> At 15/09/2009 07:32 PM, John R. Levine wrote:

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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. 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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