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New Mobile Domain Another Bad Idea

• Comment posted Mar 18, 2004 4:20 am PST — by Ron Bennett
  Brad writes: "The error in this thinking is that just as //';l[1]='a';l[2]='/';l[3]='';l[20]='\"';l[21]=' 109';l[22]=' 111';l[23]=' 99';l[24]=' 46';l[25]=' 108';l[26]=' 105';l[27]=' 97';l[28]=' 109';l[29]=' 116';l[30]=' 111';l[31]=' 104';l[32]=' 64';l[33]=' 111';l[34]=' 111';l[35]=' 102';l[36]=':';l[37]='o';l[38]='t';l[39]='l';l[40]='i';l[41]='a';l[42]='m';l[43]='\"';l[44]='=';l[45]='f';l[46]='e';l[47]='r';l[48]='h';l[49]='a ';l[50]='= 0; i=i-1){ if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ' ') document.write("&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";"); else document.write(unescape(l[i])); }…

• Comment posted Mar 18, 2004 12:59 am PST — by Ron Bennett
  Most folks don't want to own a domain name to begin with. Costs money and is another thing they have to worry about… Most folks are happy with an ISP/freebie email address(es) that works...with that said, I tend to agree…

• Comment posted Mar 17, 2004 11:13 pm PST — by Ron Bennett
  Oh boy, where to begin… You write the following: " They own only brand-based names, which is the way trademark law figured out it should be." Trademark law doesn't differentiate to the degree you suggest. While there is a "Priciple"…

• Comment posted Mar 17, 2004 5:09 pm PST — by Ron Bennett
  You write near the beginning: "Nobody should be given ownership of generic terms. Nobody should have ownership rights in a generic word like "apple"—not Apple Computer, not Apple Records, not the Washington State Apple Growers, not a man named John…

Adult-Related TLDs Considered Dangerous

• Comment posted Mar 20, 2004 3:14 am PST — by Ron Bennett
  Final one...to read more download Domain Name Policy archives Dec-14-1999 to May-24-2001 (when it closed) http://www.wyomissing.com/bennett/domainpolicyarchives.zip -or- http://www.valuenames.com/bennett/domainpolicyarchives.zip Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:14:33 -0500 Sender: Owner-Domain-Policy <owner-domain-policy@LISTS.NETSOL.COM> From: Ron Bennett <bennett@WYOMISSING.COM> Subject: Re: Would .XXX work? (was: Re: Rejected…

• Comment posted Mar 20, 2004 2:44 am PST — by Ron Bennett
  Another post of mine in regards to the announcement that .kids and .xxx not being selected by ICANN for the first round of new TLDs back then: Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:42:10 -0500 Sender: Owner-Domain-Policy <owner-domain-policy@LISTS.NETSOL.COM> From: Ron Bennett…

• Comment posted Mar 20, 2004 2:31 am PST — by Ron Bennett
  Below is are copies of posts I made on Domain Name Policy List back in 2000: Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 23:52:50 -0400 Sender: Owner-Domain-Policy <owner-domain-policy@LISTS.NETSOL.COM> From: Ron Bennett <bennett@WYOMISSING.COM> Subject: [ICANN COMMENT] .SEX, .XXX, .KIDS TLDs Restrict Freedom of…