On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Antoine Musso
<hashar+wmf(a)free.fr> wrote:
Le 20/02/2014 22:51, Brion Vibber a écrit :
> TLD proliferation is a scam by money-hungry registrars who want people
to
register
(and thus pay) in multiple TLDs to "protect their brands".
I recommend we boycott/ignore these various things and just avoid them,
but
I know we're going to end up registering a
bunch for the "brand
protection"
(racket).
To the lawyers around there:
Can a trademark owner sue the registrar directly? After all it sold a
product (the domain) using your trademark.
Remember that "wiki" is not a WMF trademark :) But presumably if someone
registered something like pedia.wiki we'd have a variety of tools to have
to address the problem.
Or we could do like Brion suggests and completely ignore that .wiki and
these other new gTLDs exist.
-Chad