ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

Thu Jun 26 23:17:45 UTC 2008

On Jun 26, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:

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>> And no, companies *aren't* "forced to pay for another domain name"  
>> just
>> because a new TLD appears -- they aren't doing it *now*, by and  
>> large,
>> and thank ghod:
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> The last time I looked there were a few thousand companies  
> protecting their intellectual property by using companies like Mark  
> Monitor to insure that they had defensive registrations in all  
> ccTLD's possible.
>
> -M<
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Whether some choose to do that or not, I believe that the point is that:

1.	Nobody is FORCING them to do so.

2.	Most are _NOT_ doing so.

3.	It is somewhat anti-social to do so, but, that has rarely been a
	constraint on corporate greed, especially amongst the Intelectual
	Property crowd.

Owen