On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@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