Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

Fri Oct 17 03:27:10 UTC 2003

On Oct 16, 2003, at 9:39 PM, Dan Riley wrote:

>
> <snip>
> And write your congressmen to explain how Verisign is abusing a
> government granted monopoly to stop others (including M$ and AOL) from
> innovating at the edge, because that's where this is headed--Verisign
> is ultimately counting on having better lobbyists with USDOC than
> ICANN, and they're probably safe to do so unless DOC feels some
> oversight from above.

Has anybody thought to explore the trademark implications of sitefinder?

For example, verisign is returning A records (and subsequently earning 
revenue from that traffic) for say:

COKE-SOFT-DRINK.COM
TIDE-DETERGENT.COM

etc..

Perhaps having the legal departments from Coke and P&G targetting them 
might make verisign rethink some policies?

Perhaps not.. just a thought..

>
> -dan
>
>
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Matt Levine <matt at deliver3.com>
"The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody 
appreciates how difficult it was."  -BIX