[NCUC-DISCUSS] [NCSG-Discuss] [Info] IPC Letter to ICANN regarding .SUCKS

[Nicolas Adam]

The TMCH is not a list of protected names. It is a list of names (for 
which TM is verified) on which 1) when there is registration there is 
notice and 2) there is a sunrise period that allow the buying beforehand.

The spirit of the TMCH isn't to protect the names from use by anyone 
else. The spirit and the letter of the TMCH does not imply 
affordability. *That* would have been a pretty big bias in favor of IP 
interests for some names. if the names are more valuable in a context 
they are more valuable (as long as there is competition).


On 30/03/2015 7:32 AM, Timothe Litt wrote:
> .SUCKS is taking a registry of names and processes intended to protect
> IP owners, and using them to attack those owners.  It isn't even
> compensating the TMCH for the list of names - which some would argue
> is also IP.  Turning "protect" into "attack" certainly violates the spirit
> in which these rules were set up.