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

[Marc Schneiders <marc@venster.nl>]

Dear Franceso and all,

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, F. Ravanelli wrote:

[...]
[rules of .it domain changing in the course of time led to Francesco
Ravenelli not getting ravenelli.it]
> 
> Fortunatly, www.ravanelli.com and www.ravanelli.co.uk are saved :-);
> www.ravanelli.net is used by a UK company to resell email address
> "@ravanelli.net".
> 
> >There is no such thing as a "more legitimate right" to a domain
>
[...]
> Another example: in Italy, there's a famous soccer player called Fabrizio
> Ravanelli: so, I haven't the right to register fabrizioravanelli.com, but I
> think I have the same right to register ravanelli.com, ravanelli.co.uk,
> ravanelli.everything :-)

I agree with you completely. It was bad luck ravenelli.it was registered
by someone who just wants to make money out of it. However, if he had not
registered it, but the famous football player, would you feel better? Or
another person called Ravenelli?

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