> That is, of course, if we let it be strong and not say, say, that
co.caine is too similar to .cocaine ....<br>
<br>Most likely their lawyers will file "confusingly similar" co.caine complaints, arguing that the domain names are "confusing" their <i>bona fide</i> acquired name from ICANN. i.e. the lawyers argument would masked to appear as 'protecting consumers' from such confusion. Just searched 'confusingly similar' at <a href="http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/fulltext_decisions.jsp?q=confusingly+similar">WIPO</a> which returned 33443 documents. It would get worse if the registries are allowed to register the names as their trademarks, see 'Trademark Policing v. Trademark Bullying' at <a href="http://theipstone.com/2012/11/13/confusingly-similar-dont-make-me-l-a-f/">http://theipstone.com/2012/11/13/confusingly-similar-dont-make-me-l-a-f/</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Nicolas Adam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nickolas.adam@gmail.com" target="_blank">nickolas.adam@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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They should try co.caine <br>
<br>
or the obvious .blow<br>
<br>
or .patente (than it'd be the flour mills that would panic)<br>
<br>
or <a href="http://cocaine.com" target="_blank">cocaine.com</a>, <a href="http://cocaine.co" target="_blank">cocaine.co</a>, <a href="http://cocaine.pe" target="_blank">cocaine.pe</a>, cocaine.snifs,
cocaine.whiffs, cocaine.goodforyou, .... .<br>
<br>
I am quite against colonizing/enclosing generic words and languages
within closed legal system, and I frequently oppose IP's settling
attempt into languages here in the dns, but I also *trust*
languages/signs to evolve and be diverse and strong.<br>
<br>
That is, of course, if we let it be strong and not say, say, that
co.caine is too similar to .cocaine ....<br>
<br>
So my humble suggestion, let a thousand [saussurian] signifier
bloom.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
<br>
Nicolas</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 2/25/2013 4:56 PM, Alex Gakuru
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">And wonder if the US southerly neighbours successfully
registered .cocaine (if they had a chance in hell) whether big
pharma would be told, "where were you late when it was registered?
Just go on and register .<span>benzoylmethylecgonine</span>
?" rules/arguments would be "adjusted"?<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Nicolas
Adam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nickolas.adam@gmail.com" target="_blank">nickolas.adam@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div>On 2/24/2013 12:44 PM, Avri Doria wrote:<br>
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hi,<br>
<br>
In which case, if I really wanted honey for some reason I
would apply for .miele or .דבש or .asali<br>
<br>
or register honey.shop or <a href="http://honey.coop" target="_blank">honey.coop</a>
or <a href="http://honey.ri.us" target="_blank">honey.ri.us</a> or honey.eat or
honey.farm or honey.food or .....<br>
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Yes, yes, and yes. Otherwise, it's just one big free public
trust of strings, whose use needs to be planned and
centralized, entailing endless (and random) specific
adjudication.<br>
<br>
As for generic word capture: language(s) is (are) big. Many
ways to talk about miel.
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I do not see the point of arguing about what content
someone allows in their gTLD. And to me this largely
comes down to a content issue. We are saying that
everyone has a right to put content under the TLD
.honey. And I just don't see it.<br>
<br>
I also see it as an association issue. Why does ICANN
have authority to tell a gTLD owner who they must
associate with, i.e who they must allow to use the gTLD
they have been allocated.<br>
<br>
As I said, I think the gulf between the two positions is
quite wide.<br>
<br>
avri<br>
<br>
<br>
On 24 Feb 2013, at 18:12, Alex Gakuru wrote:<br>
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But Avri,<br>
<br>
Let's take honey, for example. Someone registers the
word to the exclusion of everyone else in the domain
name space. Surely honey is harvested at many places
around the world, therefore *all* somewhere.honey
equally deserve registration with whomever rushed to
grab the word. Else would mean advocating for English
to be now considered as a proprietary language.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Alex<br>
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