[gnso-rpm-wg] Recommendation for Questions #7 and #16 (Design Mark and Appropriate Balance)

Wed Apr 26 17:50:15 UTC 2017

Over 36,000 registrations in the TMCH. Approximately 130 Sunrise Registrations per new gTLD. I just don’t see the enormous encroachment you are complaining about. Not to mention that Sunrise is limited to exact string. So, cloud.tld doesn’t prevent registration of ihatecloud.tld, clouds.tld, ilovecloud.tld. 

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On 4/26/17, 10:46 AM, "gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org on behalf of Jeremy Malcolm" <gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org on behalf of jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

    On 26/4/17 10:41 am, Silver, Bradley wrote:
    > Jeremy - the TMCH does not allow exclusive rights in domains.  Having a mark in the TMCH affords nothing close an exclusive right.  That's a basic truth which shouldn’t be ignored.

    The sunrise period can allow the owner of (to use Rebecca's example) the
    PARENTS stylized mark to seize the parents.forum domain to the exclusion
    of someone who wants to run a parenting forum.  Call it an exclusive
    right or whatever you want, but it goes further than trademark law.  A
    rose by any other name...

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