WIPO Pushes for More Domain Restrictions

Delphis writes "CNN has an article regarding domain names world wide 'Francis Gurry, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) assistant director-general, told a news conference the effort was aimed at preventing people using different country codes, or ccTLDs, to corner sites, often of prominent figures or businesses. ' .. Could be interesting to see a reform of the current DNS system. How many people will be the winners and losers of this though I wonder?"

Comments

TLDs

[Weezul]

"Registering" TLDs will not help since companies will still want to control anything including their name. Actually, it would just add one more place where the current fight can continue.

We need a system where the companies can not hope to control their name for all TLDs. Specifically, we need an "anarchy" based system for TLDs where anyone can create their own TLD "server," but there will be no "registration."

Example: I could create my own .com but people are unlikely to use it since they will expect the current .com. Now, if I provided all the current .com sites, but made microshit.com point to the propper site (i.e. not a site owned my microsoft) then I would probable get many "subscribers."

This will kinda happen with alternative root servers, but we need a bigger push to make these amusing and popular.

Re:Get rid of domain names

[mat catastrophe]

This is a nice idea, but keep in mind that just about every biz in the States has a cute 800 number that spells out some amalgamation of their company name.

The solution might be to just tell WIPO to shove it or tell companies to stop acting like nineteenth century assholes.

:) it's friday.

We need corporate TLD's

[Flabdabb Hubbard]

Most of these arguments could be stopped if we allowed corporations to register their own TLDs. It makes no sense for sun to be www.sun.com, and ibm to be www.ibm.com. The ".com" is redundant. It also causes more centralisation in the DNS database than is strictly needed. What would make sense is to drop the .com, and make .ibm and .sun etc etc into TLDs.

While we are at it, bind should be updated to support unicode, and someone really ought to port it to NT. (even though I hate Microsoft, and everything they stand for, as an MCSE I am always being asked to get standard Unix/Linux stuff to work on NT. Ususally I just stick a 'secret' Liunx box in there, and everyone is happy in their ignorance, but some of the moronic places I work demand an 'All Microsoft' environment.

Morons!!!

Re:We need corporate TLD's

[L. J. Beauregard]

Much of the problem with the present system is that it allows only one firm to own a given 2LD. www.delta.com, for instance, is Delta Airlines. But what if you're looking for Delta Faucet?

So let the various registrars control 2LDs under .com, referring to various business areas, and a business could register its name as a 3LD. Delta Airlines might be something like delta.airlines.com and Delta Faucet might be something like delta.plumbing.com.

One problem, of course, is that not everyone speaks English.

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