NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Washington Post: "Rush is on for custom domain name suffixes"
They bet on getting sued?
They are the ones claiming everything has been invented by naively assuming
that the names should be globally unique with no social context. Very
different from trademarks.
The BS level is stunning.
-----Original Message-----
From: nnsquad-bounces+nnsquad=bobf.frankston.com@nnsquad.org
[mailto:nnsquad-bounces+nnsquad=bobf.frankston.com@nnsquad.org] On Behalf Of
Lauren Weinstein
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 22:06
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Washington Post: "Rush is on for custom domain name
suffixes"
Washington Post: "Rush is on for custom domain name suffixes"
http://bit.ly/haVipr (Google Buzz)
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http://bit.ly/harwe8 (Washington Post)
Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility, a
grass-roots firm in Los Angeles, alleges that the new domains are
designed purely to make money for ICANN and the companies that control
the domains. The new Web addresses, he added, will only mean more
aggravation for trademark holders and confusion for the average
Internet user.
Peter Dengate Thrush, chair of the ICANN board of directors, argued
that the high application fee is based on the nonprofit's bet that
it's going to get sued, and to protect against cybersquatters or other
organizations ill equipped to manage an entire domain of hundreds, if
not thousands of Web sites. "These critics are the same kind of people
who said at the end of the 19th century that everything that's been
invented has been invented," Thrush said. "Our job is to protect
competition and give extra choices for consumers and entrepreneurs."
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--Lauren--
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