[ncdnhc-discuss] Pre-registration of .museum names has begun

[Marc Schneiders]

Well, ideally we would like to expect rijksmuseum.museum to point to
the museum in Amsterdam, which has both Rembrandt's Nightwatch and is
a major architectural 'thing'. I have no idea how to make this come
true (in a general way, I am sure .museum will not give rijksmuseum to
someone else). So either we have a good DEMOCRATIC organization
ruling all this, or it is completely open. At present we have
something in between, a regulated market. Who likes that, apart from
those who got a piece of the cake and can eat it?

-- 
Marc at Schneiders.ORG

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, at 14:56 [=GMT-0400], Chris Chiu wrote:
> Jeff Williams wrote:
> >   Interesting info here.  No pun intended of course.  >;)  It would
> > seem that both .Info and .BIZ are under significant pressure
> > for their Pre-Registration policy.  Those policies also seem to
> > be in direct conflict with ICANN's position on pre-registration
> > of Domain Names.  Now it would seem that .Museum will
> > again be under serious legal scrutiny as well early on.  What
> > is the ACLU's take on this?
> 
> It's hard to predict the outcomes of the legal disputes you mentioned
> earlier. However, the registration conflicts seen in some of these new
> Internet suffixes shows the apparently strong desires of many online
> community members for recognizable domain names. 
> 
> One way to satisfy these desires is a widescale rollout of new generic
> top-level domains. As many people have pointed out, more gTLDs would allow
> Internet speakers to use recognizable channels with less fear of treading on
> the intellectual property rights of others. Whether ICANN will actually
> adopt such an approach remains an open question.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Christopher Chiu
> Global Internet Liberty Campaign Organizer
> American Civil Liberties Union
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