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Hi Philip,<br>
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I fully agree it is a side issue unrelated to the question put to
the council by the board, but it is one I have been curious about
for a while, so thank you for indulging me. <br>
<br>
<br>
It may be the lawyer in me, butthe first thing I look for in a
policy is how can this be abused? What holes need potential
plugging? <br>
<br>
Note that the use or registration does need to be infringing on the
third party trademark. By the use of the spec, you give a TLD
operator applying for a qualifying string the ability to reserve and
allocate an unlimited number of names, completely circumventing the
Sunrise requirements, depriving Trademark Owners from their ability
to have the first shot at these names. <br>
<br>
Theorethically, say you have a Mr. Joe Apple working at [BRANDNAME]
who gets an employee domain for the catchy business email address
joe@apple.[BRANDNAME]. Then the registry opts for an open model,
does the sunrise for whatever it did not want, with Apple, Inc
having no chance to get the domain name even though they would have
had that chance in a "regular" sunrise.<br>
<br>
Excluding dotBrands from Sunrise and then also allowing them to open
up and keep what they already registered looks like a perfect chance
for someone to abuse the system, if they wanted.<br>
<br>
And then of course, one might ask the question why geographic TLD
operators may only allocate up to 100 domain names to the local
government in a pre-sunrise reservation program. Different measures?
<br>
<br>
Volker<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 15.04.2014 17:37, schrieb BRG:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014">John,
Volker,</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014">since
you prompted me to contribute to this debate I shall do so
in a personal capacity.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014">Martin
is on leave this week.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014">(Note
I do not have posting rights to Council)</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014"></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014">I
believe two issues are relevant.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014">Firstly,
do be aware that you are discussing a separate question to
the one asked by the Board NGPC.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014"></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014">Secondly,
the debate seems to me to be somewhat rarefied and seems set
in the context of traditional TLDs not .brands.What may be
of interest to consider is the likelihood of this activity,
not the theoretical possibility. </span></font><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014">Whereas
brand.com or brand.bike may be of interest, brand1.brand2 or
brand2.brand1 raise issues of user confusion and trade mark
infringement. Incentives are different. </span></font><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014">Further,
remedies such as UDRP or even the registry-level PDDRP will
be there to tackle issues of infringement.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014">Philip</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014"></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014"></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014"></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="231272615-15042014"></span></font> </div>
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