Re: [ICANN-EU] The real challenge for all of us as candidates

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net>]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:21:35 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:

>And what do you propose to end the present situation where some arbitrator
>appointed by the party that wants a domain can steal it from those who are
>the rightful owner, but are smaller businesses or ordinary people?
>See barcelona.com: "the city has a more legitamate right than a
>company". This is against the rules of the UDRP but it happens. You let it
>happen.

I mostly agree with you, but there is a point: it is impossible to define
who is the "legitimate" owner of a domain, so the first-come first-served
principle could seem the only way to go, and nevertheless there are some
clear cases in which this principle goes against that very weak people you
want to defend. I.e., here in Italy, as soon as the limit of one domain per
entity was abolished, a company registered some thousands of the most common
family names. They are not allowed to sell them, since .it domains cannot be
(officially) traded (and I think this is great), but nevertheless many
individuals here cannot get their family name as a domain.

This is why I think that it is important to have different TLDs with
different policies. I find good that in geographic domains (not in .com) the
names of places are reserved to the public administration of the place
itself. On the other hand, I can't see why that same name in a commercial
TLD should not be kept by a private.
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Vittorio Bertola     <vb@vitaminic.net>    Ph. +39 011 23381220
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