Re: New Internet Draft on registering IDNs

[tedd <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Similarly, fu<umlaut>hrer.de might be unavailable to everyone except the
> owner of fuehrer.de.
>
> That seems like the right policy to me.
>
> I think revoking existing registrations is a non-starter; the
> registrants would be furious, and rightly so.
>
> AMC

AMC:

So then, under this policy the owner of fuehrer.de won't have to do 
anything? He doesn't have to take any steps protect his original 
name. He doesn't even have to register fu<umlaut>hrer.de? He can just 
sit there, do nothing and let your policy protect him -- nice for him.

What about other TLD's? Does he not have to worry about them as well?

This proposed policy doesn't sound right to me and I am sure that 
registrars won't like missing the revenue generated by customers 
protecting their name.

As you well know, many organizations/companies register different 
names for protection. For example, my wife's business, namely Earth 
Stones, has registered earthstones.com as well as earth-stones.com 
and earthstones under five other TLDs. She did this because 
protective registration makes sense and it's cheaper than court.

If the end result of this policy making makes it such that the 
original owner of a DN doesn't have to worry about 
like-registrations, then registrars will lose money. AND, if this 
policy extends to other TLD's, then this policy will revoke existing 
registrations from those who arrived late to register any name 
registered under a different TLD.

I don't think this will work.

tedd

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