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["Alex M (Coyo)" <coyo AT darkdna.net>]

I am not entirely certain I like having one's identity referred to as 
'intellectual property.'

On 04/22/2013 09:54 AM, Travis McCrea wrote:
> EFF would probably not be the ones to help us protect our "intellectual 
> property", and I don't really like the idea of us trying to defend it anyway. Also 
> since OpenNIC doesn't exist as an organization, it is simply a collaboration amongst 
> individuals, I am not sure we would have much ground anyway.
>
> What we need to do is reach out to ICANN and see if we can come to some form 
> of agreement on accepting other TLDs which infringe on the OpenNIC namespace.
>
> Guillaume Parent wrote:
> > I know we're not the biggest project out there, but it's possible that
> > the EFF might be interested in this if we hold some sort of mark on
> > ".free". At least they'd be able to tell us if we have any chance of
> > doing anything.