They should try co.caine
or the obvious .blow
or .patente (than it'd be the flour mills that would panic)
or
cocaine.com,
cocaine.co,
cocaine.pe, cocaine.snifs,
cocaine.whiffs, cocaine.goodforyou, .... .
I am quite against colonizing/enclosing generic words and languages
within closed legal system, and I frequently oppose IP's settling
attempt into languages here in the dns, but I also *trust*
languages/signs to evolve and be diverse and strong.
That is, of course, if we let it be strong and not say, say, that
co.caine is too similar to .cocaine ....
So my humble suggestion, let a thousand [saussurian] signifier
bloom.
Nicolas
On 2/25/2013 4:56 PM, Alex Gakuru
wrote:
And wonder if the US southerly neighbours successfully
registered .cocaine (if they had a chance in hell) whether big
pharma would be told, "where were you late when it was registered?
Just go on and register .benzoylmethylecgonine
?" rules/arguments would be "adjusted"?
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Nicolas
Adam
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wrote:
On 2/24/2013 12:44 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
hi,
In which case, if I really wanted honey for some reason I
would apply for .miele or .דבש or .asali
or register honey.shop or honey.coop
or honey.ri.us or honey.eat or
honey.farm or honey.food or .....
Yes, yes, and yes. Otherwise, it's just one big free public
trust of strings, whose use needs to be planned and
centralized, entailing endless (and random) specific
adjudication.
As for generic word capture: language(s) is (are) big. Many
ways to talk about miel.
I do not see the point of arguing about what content
someone allows in their gTLD. And to me this largely
comes down to a content issue. We are saying that
everyone has a right to put content under the TLD
.honey. And I just don't see it.
I also see it as an association issue. Why does ICANN
have authority to tell a gTLD owner who they must
associate with, i.e who they must allow to use the gTLD
they have been allocated.
As I said, I think the gulf between the two positions is
quite wide.
avri
On 24 Feb 2013, at 18:12, Alex Gakuru wrote:
But Avri,
Let's take honey, for example. Someone registers the
word to the exclusion of everyone else in the domain
name space. Surely honey is harvested at many places
around the world, therefore *all* somewhere.honey
equally deserve registration with whomever rushed to
grab the word. Else would mean advocating for English
to be now considered as a proprietary language.
Regards,
Alex