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<font style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Very welcome Andy. I'm on vacation this week so haven't fully vetted the rules but seem reasonable at first glance.
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I never thought that frontrunning a TLD that had yet to exist would provide any advantage in a LRO.
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<font style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><b>From</b>: Andy Abrams [mailto:abrams@google.com]
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<b>Sent</b>: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 01:32 PM<br>
<b>To</b>: Phil Corwin <br>
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<b>Subject</b>: Re: [bc-gnso] New US trademark rules likely to exclude many dot-brand gTLDs | DomainIncite - Domain Name News & Opinion
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for sending, Phil. I think these rules are very reasonable - it's just unfortunate that the prohibitions on front-running and registering generic terms were not incorporated into the LRO guidelines earlier. It would have saved everyone
a lot of time and money.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Phil Corwin <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com" target="_blank">psc@vlaw-dc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<a href="http://domainincite.com/14139-new-us-trademark-rules-likely-to-exclude-many-dot-brand-gtlds" target="_blank">http://domainincite.com/14139-new-us-trademark-rules-likely-to-exclude-many-dot-brand-gtlds</a><br>
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