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[Kenny Taylor <kennytaylor AT runbox.com>]

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Legal issues aside, it's probably best to yield to ICANN.  If not, there 
becomes a disincentive for end users to use OpenNIC.

In the long run, maybe we create a TLD that ICANN would not take, like 
".opennic".  We could define 2LDs like free.opennic and offer registrations 
of the 3LDs.


mike <mike AT pikeaero.com> wrote:

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>On 04/22/2013 10:09 AM, Travis McCrea wrote:
>>
>> We have actually known about the .free thing for a while, though I
>> am wondering if they are ever actually going to launch. The cool
>> thing is that I messaged them and showed them my .free domain on
>> OpenNIC and explained that I already had a brand on .free so if
>> someone registered a ..free on their domain name it could be viewed
>> as a trademark infringement.
>>
>> They sent me an email back confirming that they would reserve
>> support.free on their TLD.
>>
>> I am not a big supporter of intellectual property enforcement, but
>> it sounds like anyone who has an OpenNIC .free domain which they
>> are actually using can apply to have the name reserved in their
>> .free. I wonder if Julian can get for.free?
>>
>>
>
>I wonder if there might be a means in the future to protect OpenNIC
>TLDs by means of copyright, trademark, or some other means of
>intellectual property protection? After all, just because ICANN is
>bigger, if OpenNIC had the name first, should they not still have
>first right to it? After all it's the same internet...
>
>I don't think it's really that cut and dry from a legal stand point, I
>think we could probably cobble together a little bit of a legal leg to
>stand on if we put our heads together...
>
>Anyway, just some initial thoughts on that....
>
>- --Mike
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