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April 30, 2007

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Kevin Murphy

Very clever. Nice one :-)

ActNow

Do you think there might be a TM problem with

Tide.PG
Soap.PG
Pamper.PG
Pringle.PG
Crest.PG
Dawn.PG
Always.PG
Folgers.PG
Ivory.PG
Joy.PG
Scope.PG
Secret.PG
Boss.PG
Ghost.PG
Bounty.PG
Cheer.PG
Bounce.PG

And, that is probably only a fraction of their brand names.

***FS*** That's an interesting thought process.

TMfor

I expect to see in the future possibility to register *.* domains - for example frank.schilling, the only burden imho recently is it would take too much of computing power on DNS side. But sooner or later CPU's will be powerful enough to process *.* domains. Question is if it would make .com stronger or weaker...

***FS*** Elliot Noss of Tucows mentioned the same at the ICANN meetings in vancouver.. At first I agreed with him that it would make dot come weaker.. but because there would be so few of them (relatively) and because of the amount of money behind the .com jugernaut.. (verisign has a vested interest in keeping the money train going as s and would fight tooth and nail to stop it) it likely wouldn't happen. You would have to make getting your own GTLD as easy as getting your own domain name through Godaddy.. Too much politics, potential for confusion.. etc etc.

David Wrixon (aka Rubber Duck)

To make any progress on this P&G would have to take the TM issue to the Papua New Guinea courts. One feels that they might not make too much progress there.

Frankly, I don't see an issue. PG could easily afford to buy the whole of the PG registry on the secondary market if they chose to.

To me this looks like an argument fabricated by the marketing consultants and lawyers who are out to make a fast buck out of Procter and Gamble.

RobB

Maybe CAlifornia will come after .ca

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