[Novalug] Domain name blues

Mike Shade mshade@mshade.org
Wed Jul 11 15:13:48 EDT 2007


Jay, I think you're over stating it just a bit...  But yes, the petition
idea has potential for abuse.

-- Mike

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:08:49 -0400 (EDT), "Jay Hart" <jhart@kevla.org>
wrote:
> This would be nothing short of a major disaster...
> 
> I get a site, name it Ihategators.com  (which I do, but that is not the
> point
> here).  You come along and decide that you don't like what I am saying,
> and
> assume its "adveritising related". So you and a bunch of your friends
> "petition" to get the site away from me.
> 
> First amendment right violation, maybe!!!
> 
> Jay
> 
>> You know, maybe I'm not really thinking so much of a law against people
>> putting up junk sites, but rather a petition process by which someone
>> who has a real site to usurp a junk site.  And I don't simply mean
>> "whoever site is better," but really that it must be determined to be a
>> non-site.  But just like spam in email, I can see how this would just
>> lead to more sophisticated techniques for making sites look legitimate.
>> I don't know if that would be a good thing or not.
>>
>>
>>
>> Fearer, Mark wrote:
>>> Kind of old, but found this when searching for domain registrations
>>> against a trademarked name:
>>>
>>> http://www.icann.org/dndr/udrp/policy.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> */Angelo Bertolli <angelo@freeshell.org>/* wrote:
>>>
>>>     While I like the freeness and openness of the Internet, I'm getting
>>>     really tired of there not being any good domain names to register
>>>     simply
>>>     because people register them only to put up junk ad sites. Do we
> have
>>>     any laws at all regarding cyber litter?
>>>
>>>     Angelo
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