AW: [ICANN-EU] ICANN Revokes Domain Names

[SchultzKom@t-online.de (Christian Schultz Kommunalberatung)]

Dear Jim,

I totally agree with you. The main question is: Where is the open and
transparent ICANN Board discussions on this ? If not even we as
@large-members hear of ICANN anything, I think we need more open doors and
windows.
Our representatives should work on it!

Best regards

Christian

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Von: owner-icann-europe@fitug.de [mailto:owner-icann-europe@fitug.de]Im
Auftrag von JIM FLEMING
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. November 2000 19:54
An: Mike Roberts
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@@@ http://www.adlawbyrequest.com/industry/ICANNRevoke.shtml

ICANN Revokes Domain Names

"According to the The New York Times New York Times, businesspeople
who registered the names are unhappy with the decision. Mike Roberts,
ICANN's president, said that the domain names should never have been
registered in the first place. Roberts further explained that a domain name
that ends in a dash is "a bad idea because it just generates consumer
confusion.
It doesn't have any utility in the user space."

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Isn't the real reason that names ending in dash-dot could be used
as TLDs with some people's software and ICANN did not
want to allow any prior use rights to be established for TLDs ?

In other words, someone with WEB-.COM might be able to
use that dash-dot to trigger software to look-up that address as if
it was the .WEB TLD by tossing the -.COM, thus yielding a
string ending in .WEB ?

Who makes the decision that something is a "bad idea" and
if software is the only thing that sees the names with the trailing
-.COM, then how can consumers be confused ?

Does ICANN control how DNS software works ?
Does ICANN develop software ?
Does ICANN have any patents ?

What about the intellectual property rights of people that registered
those names ?
Does ICANN care about the intellectual property rights of domain owners ?

Is the assumption that ALL domain names are visible to consumers ?

Is there any other "valid" use for the DNS, other than web-sites, in ICANN's
eyes ?

Is there a record of all of the Registrations which were revoked ?

Where is the open and transparent ICANN Board discussions on this ?

Where is the communication with the various parties involved ?

How long did it take between the discovery of the registrations and
the removal from the .COM zone ?

Why does ICANN move quickly when it wants to revoke names
or determine when names "should never have been registered" and
then move slowly in other cases ?


Jim Fleming
http://Register.WEB.com

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