Wipo ruling could wipe out domain names
Posted by Tom Warren on 27 March 2003 - 09:55 · 8 comments & 680 views
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#1 Posted by 505 on 27 Mar 2003 - 10:29
- What? I can no longer view my daily portion of porn at whitehouse.com
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#2 Posted by womble68 on 27 Mar 2003 - 13:48
- I'm slightly worried if this will affect companies such as UKOnline (Easynet) in the UK, which if I read this right could have their domain taken off them because the UK Government wants the address, even considering UKOnline has been running for over 10 years!
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#3 Posted by ORPHlC on 27 Mar 2003 - 14:39
- This is lame...BOYCOTT this so called wipo....Wipo...Sounds like some kind of toilet paper or baby wipes...
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#4 Posted by paulhaskew on 27 Mar 2003 - 17:35
- heh, great comment #3... kinda interesting how the political beast wants to stop everything all the time... pretty soon you won't be able to have a domain name with someones name in it, cause someone else has the name. Whatever happened to first come, first serve??
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#4.1 Posted by jizness on 27 Mar 2003 - 21:16
- [neoquote=#4.0 by paulhaskew]heh, great comment #3... kinda interesting how the political beast wants to stop everything all the time... pretty soon you won't be able to have a domain name with someones name in it, cause someone else has the name. Whatever happened to first come, first serve??[/neoquote] First come first serve only applies if the person has a copyright basis to own the domain for very well known names. For instance if some major company like cisco(lets just use a very well known name in the example) didnt own cisco.com but some guy did, cisco could just file a complaint and sue the owner for the domain. They would obsiously win without a problem. The point is majr companies etc should have the rights to domains, because if you would to type in google.com an instead of getting the search engine you got donkey porn it obsiously would cause a major riff as the appropriate people who should own the domain(which there entire business is based on) dont.
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#5 Posted by stubear on 28 Mar 2003 - 02:58
- This is [b]EXACTLY[/b] why the entire TLD system needs to be much more fine grained than it is and the entire process needs to be monitored very carefully. You want a .com TLD? You better have a business license. You want a .ned? You had better be a PhD, DD or other medical professional promoting your services. You want to run a porn site? You can only have a .xxx TLD. No more domain name trickery. Most people will be given a .per for personal sites and blogs. Only ISPs can get .net TLDs and .org is reserved for legitimate non-profit organizations. I'm sure there are other TLDs that woul dneed ot be created but once the system is in place sites like Google can develop the means for referencing and catagorizing sites.
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#5.1 Posted by ORPHlC on 28 Mar 2003 - 07:24
- [neoquote=#5.0 by stubear]This is [b]EXACTLY[/b] why the entire TLD system needs to be much more fine grained than it is and the entire process needs to be monitored very carefully. You want a .com TLD? You better have a business license. You want a .ned? You had better be a PhD, DD or other medical professional promoting your services. You want to run a porn site? You can only have a .xxx TLD. No more domain name trickery. Most people will be given a .per for personal sites and blogs. Only ISPs can get .net TLDs and .org is reserved for legitimate non-profit organizations. I'm sure there are other TLDs that woul dneed ot be created but once the system is in place sites like Google can develop the means for referencing and catagorizing sites.[/neoquote] u r joking right?
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#5.2 Posted by stubear on 28 Mar 2003 - 15:14
- Actually I'm not joking. The only joke here is the current system for TLDs and domain names. The only way to resolve these problems without redesigning the entire internet (which it so desperately needs) is to create a much finer grained system for TLDs. Instead of making inane comments, why don't you try to explain what's wrong with it and what you might do to fix the problem? And try to spell out your words. You're typing on a computer not a cell phone. I think you could bother to actually add the two extra letters to spell out "you" and the two extra letters to spell out "are". Though this is telling as to your age and maturity level so perhaps you should announce to the world that you are a pimply faced high school teenager.
World Intellectual Property Organisation under fire over proposed changes to Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
A well-meaning proposal from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) could threaten the existence of many domain names and websites, a domain registrar has warned.
Wipo wants to expand what is known as the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to include country names and government organisations.
If the proposal becomes policy, anyone who owns a domain name that includes a country name or acronym of a government organisation could be forced to drop the domain name.
For example, a company's ownership of a domain could be challenged by a government agency in another country which has the same initials.
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