[Novalug] Need internet domain name savvy lawyer

Brian Little winzig@comcast.net
Sat Mar 3 22:06:22 EST 2007


I believe the information you're looking for may be gleaned from this site 
http://www.gtld-mou.org/

-Brian

Kevin Dwyer wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:22:24PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>   
>> What gives ICANN the right to decide who can control the TLDs?  The DNS
>> system is a shared resource.  You're fully free to implement your own
>> DNS and control all the TLDs, but the Internet wouldn't be very useful
>> unless we all shared the same root servers.  So what we end up with is a
>> regulated shared resource, and we have special laws in place because
>> it's a shared resource.  Just like Comcast has stewardship of the
>> physical cable lines--it has to abide by special laws so that society
>> doesn't bear a huge burden of every company having to lay their own
>> cables to every location.
>>     
>
> I just want someone to cite the laws governing registration of domain
> names.  I'm fully ready to believe they exist, given the kinds of crazy
> laws we live with, but without them, I don't see the rights that people
> claim.
>
>   
>> So I guess what I'm saying is, domain names aren't really priced
>> according to their real "market value" due to the nature of the system. 
>> Some of this was done on purpose to make the Internet more free and
>> usable by the common person.  However the law recognizes and has a few
>> provisions to prevent misuse of this system.
>>     
>
> That doesn't do anyone any good if there are two organizations with the
> same name.  There can be only one .COM.  DNS is first come first served.
>
> -kpd
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