On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 03:44:49PM +0000, Milton L Mueller ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

> I’m on .sucks side on this one.
>
> In effect, the .sucks domain seems to be engaged in a legitimate
> form of price discrimination between brand owners who want to
> suppress critical expression about their brands and people who
> actually want to use the domain for its intended purpose.

Perhaps. And if so, I'm all for it.

In fact, if I was running .sucks I'd make it a rule that
x.sucks will never be sold to trademark x owner or
company x at all, and others would forfeit their x.sucks
domain if they don't badmouth x enough. :-)

> Extortion means that one is threatened with violence or some other
> form of illegal harm if one doesn’t pay up. The idea that paying a
> high fee to preempt the mere possibility that someone might register
> and use a critical domain such as brand.sucks is not extortion.

Agreed.

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Tapani Tarvainen