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New ICANN TLDs Are Live
BenBenBen writes "According to this story on the BBC, several of the new ICANN top level domains now have sites available. Examples are visa.info and afilias.info. " I'm still waiting to get my 'dot' TLD. The article doesn't say much new except it tells us a few biz and info sites that you can use if you just wanna see a new TLD working. I gotta say, it's pretty surreal.
I think that icann should stop bullying people around and let some of the rouge TLD's in. But I do see people using the new TLD's as a good step.
Is is just me, or is seeing a new four characters after a url not actually all that amazing?
For the 50th time, they are announcing something which will never happen.
Thinking about this, its the tipping point I feel from the internet being a military network and a academic and a research network, to a full blown business network with significant commerical interests.
I don't know how to feel strangely, because we have known it will eventually happen, but it seems a little bit has been lost in the process of change.
I'm not against change, I just ponder where we are heading...
`find / -name "*your_base*" -exec chown us:us {} \;`
Some registrars are offering ".sex" domain. However : .SEX ISN'T A TLD AND IT PROBABLY NEVER WILL.
.sex domain, the registrar send you a little pluging for Internet Explorer. That plugin adds lookups for .sex site on the registrar's name server. So it works. It works for you, it works for whoever installs the plugin.
When you buy a
But it won't work for all the rest of the world. You'll be charged $75 for a domain that nobody will see.
Take care, there are a lot of registrar registering ".sex" domains, saying that "they soon will be available as real TLDs". But that's untrue. Nobody knows whether it will even happen. But your credit card will be billed.
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Does this mean their spam will stop?
...
NAH, it'll probably mean more spam from VeriSign.
There is one plus that I can think of. Maybe people will start to realize that not everything is a "dot com".
There's already hundreds of thousands of web sites that already fall under the wrong TLD category because current TDL's are too vague. These two only make it worse. There is nothing wrong with adding TLD's, but we need them to be MORE specific to prevent ongoing domain name conflicts. Dot info and dot biz... besides the fact that they seem rather "immature" and "umprofessional" respectively, they don't help clue me in much on what I'm looking at. "What's the difference between a COMmerical site and a BIZiness site? Isn't somecompany.com also a BIZiness?" "Is this ORGinzation just about INFO?"
.TLD. scheme to include regions? www.somecompany.com.east/west/se/etc.
These domains add confusion and too much generality. At the risk of a TLD being too long, why not create a ".store" for retail fronts, or ".gr(ou)p" for non-established organizations (that one would be great for OSS developers). How about extending the concept of the
I may just be blowing my horn here, but these things are just plain dumb. Some of my suggestions here may add some confusion, but won't adding to the mess also do that in a less constructive way?
Why bother.
Once you get the 'dot' TLD, you can finally move slashdot to slashdot.dot. That will be even more fun to say around the uninitiated.
It won't help clean up the .com domains. The reason is becuase most sex sites don't conflict with domain names that businesses want for their web sites. For example, does IBM in contest for hotsex4uandgoats.com? No. Do sex sites have domain names like microsoft.com? As amusing as that would be, the answer is also no. .sex, while making porn smucks look a little harder for the wares they seek, wouldn't benefit the rest of us. And if it was official, it'd be something our browsers would search through if the domain we were looking for was unavailable. It'd annoy me greatly if a route to debian.org was unavailable and my browser defaulted to debian.sex and a web site containing photos of Ian's and Debra's love life.
Why bother.
I'm still waiting for the .444 TLD
http://Lenny.com
4 great justice!
You think the Internet has just now taken the step from mostly academic to largely commercial? Where have you been? The new TLDs change nothing, other than there will be more domains (sort of) so that people don't have to buy my-company-incorporated-123.com to host their site (ehh, that sites prolly taken already too).
Ok, it won't make it easy, since most of the dictionary is probably sold already anyway, but it will help.
No offense, but just who do you think you are talking to here? :)
.kewl domains either. They're fake.
I would hope the average Slashdot community member would know that. Then again, I've seen some wierd posts that could disprove that theory.
Don't buy
http://www.info.info
linuxtoday. have submitted this to slashdot - hopefully it wont get rejected. last day for comments is today (sep 30 2001). and thats final. this sucks. apologies for posting this, but i dont know how long my submission will sit in a queue.
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Yeah, which is why a lot of sites don't belong on a dot com. Are half of the news sites y'all visit ORGanizations or COMmercial companies? Do they support the NETwork infrastructure?
.com domain lately? Everything, and I mean everything, is taken.
I think they were created for two reasons:
1. To increase sales for registrars.
2. To help people find shorter names for their web sites.
Have you tried to search for a
Does this mean that it would finally be http://www.goat.sex instead of http://www.goatse.cx? It would truly be the end of an era on slashdot if that happened :-)
I think these new TLDs are gonna be better for the net society, simply because they give the web a higher degree of "organization". If you think about it, with just the old standard domains (.com, .net, .org, and .edu), where would a personal webpage go? Obviously, the person is not a company, network, organization, or education institution. I dunno, I could be delusional about all this.
Conversely, I don't think I'll ever find myself typing '.museum'. I think that'll just be TOO awkward for me, just because I'm used to seeing no more than 3 letters after the 'dot'. It seems like ICANN should've put in some kind of ordinance declaring that TLDs should not exceed 3 characters (not including the dot, of course). Just my opinion, though.
Later,
Patrick
Everytime I point Konquerer at visa.info it just flickers for few seconds and dies on a SIGABRT. Pretty much sums up the whole "new TLD" experience for me.
Man, somebody needs a life :)
[circumventing lameness filter]
My other sig is also a
Well, I was browsing through the new .info whois, and decided to check out sex.info. Of course, it's already registered, no surprise there. However, apparently, it wasn't registered under the "Open Registration" rules, but as a trademark. Yes, boys and girls, this is what the whois info shows:
Trademark Name: SEX
Trademark Date: 2000-01-04
Trademark Country: USA
Trademark Number: 2306348
As a search on The USPTO shows, a very specific rendering of "sex" is trademarked by a Jaime M Cerrato, to be used for "games, playthings and novelty items, namely, mechanical pull toys." This trademark was used by Hera Ventures and Investments, Ltd. to register sex.info. Somehow, I doubt the only thing that site is going to be doing is selling "mechinal pull toys". Dirty trick or outright fraud? I don't know, but it's obviously abuse.
This is an EX-PARROT!
Why don't you get a life, If all you can do is sit around, and watch the national news network's coverage of NYC, then you, out of the gene pool. It is time to move on, no time to be our hollow selfs and watch tv till our eyes fall out of their sockets.
http://whatthen.biz/natch/ :D
Later,
Patrick
Isn't one of the biggest selling points for traditional TLDs the fact that they are easy to remember? Sure there are many country specific TLDs, but usually they are used by people in your/nearby countries......
How many people are going to remember that my site is not www.thinkbrown.com but instead www.thinkbrown.info or www.thinkbrown.TLDoftheday?
Heck, why don't we go one step furhter, I want to define my own TLDs.
I don't buy into the arguement that traditional TLDs are all taken.... just stop the domain squatters and you'll be happy.
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If 90% of these new TLD's are simply going to refer back to the .com of the business that snaps them up, like I suspect (dell.info->dell.com), and if those .com's aren't really changed in any way (no reason they should)...
.info or whatever are going to bother to create a new web site specifically for that domain?
Is this the worlds biggest DNS server? Meta DNS? Seriously, though, how many companies who snatch up an
Well, since it works in Opera and Explorer, maybe, just maybe it could be you chose a bad browser to experiment with...?
As the article implies, this will most probably lead to existing companies reserving more domain names in new TLDs. Let's take an example, say, Finnair, our beloved Finnish airline.
finnair.fi already belongs to Finnair
finnair.com as well, as they're doing business in many countries so they'll need an "international" commercial domain
finnair.aero just because they're dealing with aviation
finnair.biz because they're doing business
finnair.pro - well, they're professionals after all
finnair.info, timetables anyone?
Nice move, ICANN.
Follow your Euro bills at EBT
It crashes consistently on www.visa.info; (KDE 2.2); I guess the shock of a four letter TLD was too much for it :-)
[Actually, it's just crappy HTML code with frames. Too bad people still can't code.]
I wonder how long it will take for the 7 'forbidden' words to make it to TLD; now that would be news.
"Fix it? It has been disintegrated, by definition it cannot be fixed!" - Gru in Despicable Me.
Of course you knwo this is going to lead to a lot of broken code.. which verify's an email to have a 2-3 letter TLD.... lord knows i've beens subjected to it.
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
Well, I was really going to rant about trademarks. TMs is usually the part of IP regime that I find the least problematic, but. There is something strange there.
Here's my story:
I have for several years maintained a site titled "How to use a compass". Since I've been orienteering for many years, and just because I could write this, just because the web allowed me to become a publisher, I did write it up.
It is time for the site to move on, I intend to open it up for many contributors. I intend to get a few excellent orienteers and expeditionists to join me in making this site even better, and I intend to release it under the GNU Free Documentation License (but with some modifications to allow people to print and distribute printouts more easily).
Obviously, I should have a domain for it. While I have other options, what can possibly be more fitting for this site than compass.info? It is the most used compass tutorial on the web, there are a few of them, but most are actually using my illustrations... The site is literally information about the centuries-old gadget called a compass.
However, it has been decided that trademarks owners should have a prior right to our language (eh, well, English is not my native tongue, I'm Norwegian). They should be allowed to grab first, and so, compass.info is gone. Like in some many cases, the compass has been used metaphorically. There is actually very little information about the gadget compass on the web, but there is extensive use of the term "compass" used metaphorically. In fact, this is a problem I've had when designing metadata for the site.
I'm quite confident (yep, I do have some self-confidence :-) ), that if
the delegation of domain names had been based on what merit a site has for
accurately describing what lies in a name, my site would have won... :-)
So, what is it with trademarks that makes them so valuable for mankind that it is more important that the domain name compass.info is used do point to a product that has nothing to do with what has for centuries been known as a compass, rather than an accurate description on how to use this gadget....?
I do not doubt that the American College Testing Program, who has been awarded compass.info has good intentions for it, but still, the question stands, why is it that trademarks should have that level of protection?
I feel there is something wrong about all this. Names are a scarce resource, and should be treated with caution. I feel the use of trademarks needs a review. This isn't what they are supposed to be: My parents went to China and bought "The North Face" jackets with a Gore-Tex membran for just about nothing. While they realize it certainly aren't real North Face jackets, I have yet to convince them it certainly has no Gore-Tex membran. They are going to get seriously wet one of these days... :-)
That's what trademarks are supposed to do for us: protect us from being
sold crap. They're not supposed to be used for grabbing bits and pieces
of living langauges...
Employee of Inrupt, Project Release Manager and Community Manager for Solid
Let me just talk about .ws for a second. This is the most meaningless TLD of them all. The nodename part of a domainname should specify what the service is i.e. www, smtp, ns, nntp, etc... otherwise we need to create all these others as TLDs as well, which I'm sure everyone would agree is silly.
And to those who have posted that we need regional TLDs, we have those already. The are called country code TLDs. In fact I think we should get rid of .com, .net, .org, .edu, and .gov and stick them under .us. It seems to work for the UK and Australia. A company should have to register a .com.ccTLD for the countries they exist in. The Internet is not just the United States anymore.
In summary new TLDs only polute the DNS name space.
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We should get rid of the whole idea of TLDs. It is an artifical limitation.
After some deliberation, I have decided to post this. I could have quietly informed one of the /. editors. I should have bought this ripe little domain for myself, but I am skint. So here it is, somebody snap this peachy little domain please - Its still available, according to internetters.co.uk:
slashdot.info
go get it.....
Hmm, when can I register http://www.chicken.coop ?
What is a good company to use to get a .info domain name?
Who needs new TLD??? I coan only see one use for them... to increase the revenue of ICANN and it's protected registars!
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SuperDuG
There is propaganda being spread by the authorities, that these new TLDs will solve the problems for trademarks - it is a lie.
THOUSANDs of new open TLDs will not solve any problem - even if every one has 'Sunrise Period'
It will not solve 'consumer confusion', 'trademark conflict' or stop anybody 'passing off'.
Also, as an example on Sunrise, thousands of trademarks using word 'Apple' have no guarantee of being able to use name.
Apple computers will still protect and make claim to every Apple.[anything] - even though they share word with 727 others in the USA alone (plus all those in 200+ countries).
TRUE or FALSE?
No reply required - I know the TRUTH - The solution to trademark problem is at WIPO.org.uk.
To quote:
Woo hoo!
Sign me up!
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Personally, I beleive that TLDs should be taken care of just like domains are. Though, moving off track, subdomains are taken care of exclusively on the domain's server, without any interaction with the registrar. Not that I am saying this should be the same for TLDs, but te route of the subdomain works well for domains now.
TLDs on the other hand should be registered with the registrar, but as soon as it is created [.conesus perhaps] anyone can now register domains on that TLD. Or maybe just have every TLD as part of the domain. Instead of removing the TLDs completely [http://conesus], there could be a two part domain system, replacing the one part domain, and one part fixed TLD. [http://conesus.web-design] or [http://microsoft.software] or even [http://microsoft.porn]. That way, Microsoft wouldn't be concerned about registering microsoft.porn, because nobody would even go there if they were looking for a microsoft product.
If we [as humans, not just US citizens] can remember phone numbers for all the people/family/friends/businesses we call regularly, then why can't we remember two-part names that can be easily looked up [by Google, or by asking, or by looking at that piece of paper you got when you were wondering about a piece of software, and a representative gave you the web address]. This solves a lot of these .com problems, but what I am really wondering is, how many new problems are created when we remove the TLD system, and institute a two part domain system, so not every word is taken.
Don't eat your soul to fill your belly.
conesus.com
There's always http://www.icann.org/tlds/
If you want to voice your concerns about a specific issue with the new domains. Direct contacts, that's evil, I wonder if they will read all their mail.
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
Still won't clean up the rest of the net. Only a proven lack of demand will do that. Too bad there's a new one born every minute.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
There have been other TLDs in operation in
.biz).
limited subsets of the 'Net for some time.
Check out OpenNIC's site for a host of information about an internet namespace that's administered democratically. (There are several such namespaces, many of which are coalescing into a large, collaborative space run by the people,
for the people. OpenNIC is particularly well
run.)
The new ICANN standards actually conflict with pre-existing namespaces (such as
All you have to do is point your DNS server into
the OpenNIC tree...
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This morning I had a gnutella connection from a machine at who.int. I tried www.who.int and it works - turns out it's the World Health Organization.
.int and where did it come from? I presume it means "international" but I've never heard of .int before and the article doesn't mention it as one of the new TLDs. I tried www.nic.int, but it's restricted. Anyone know where more info can be found?
What is
Shaun
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
Just a note on the .biz registration process:
.biz domain. I pre-pre-submitted a request for the name WAY back when they first started talking about these new tlds. After a while, more people jumped on the bandwagon and it began to look like we were really going to see these come into circulation. I did some more research about the (pre) registration process and found that while you could pay your registrar to 'reserve' the name for you, they couldn't initially guarantee that you would get the name. In fact you just got an entry into an intial drawing (which is tomorrow, IIRC) when you might actually be awarded the name. Needless to say, I bought several more "entries" for my domain of choice (it's that good... really)
.biz tld.
I wanted to get a certain
One critical loophole: the initial pre-registration period is also meant to allow those with trademark or "intellectual property" claims to a name to challenge your right to register it. While this sounds like a good way to protect legitimate rights, it just allowed people time to register all kinds of bogus claims with the USPTO. Last week I received a notice from Neuland (?) informing me that 15 or 20 people had "IP" claims to my domain. What should I do? Do I have any chance, as a non-corporate-lawyer-holding netizen of preserving my rights to the name even if I happen to be awarded it? I'd think that I should have just as much right to it as anybody else considering there's no "prior use" of the
Guvegrra?
afilias.info works already for many weeks. Not new. J.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I.
With the market crash .COMs have gone belly up left and right. Valuable .COM addresses are now exchanged for a cup of coffee. More power to people wanting to use a non standrard TLD, but reality says the WORLD, uses .COM. I remember a story here or on Kuroshin about the lack of use on the off brand TLD's.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Oh, Please... We should be so lucky here at slashdot to be able to call up some special forces mo-fo's to clean you guys out with K-Bars and sniper rifles.
Unfortunately, we simply do not have the clout necessary. But, if it makes you feel better, the moderators we send over there will be knocking them down a little lower than -1.
krystal_blade
It will be easy to motivate our fellow man; there is hardly anything people treasure more than not being annihilated.
...not when elvisburger.com is still up for grabs.
You could register things like cd
cd.dot
or (because dos sucks)
cdspace.dot
or
dot.dot
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
What's too vague about that?
Absolutely nothing! fbi.net.org.edu.gov is a great domain name!
This silliness applies to just about everything. Is AOL a company, an organisation, or a network? All three! Is St. Timothy Christian Academy a company, an organisation, or a school? All three!
I'd like to see a .www TLD because it would be funny. Could you imagine the confusion of http://org.slashdot.www? That would kick ass!
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
Wow. Replacing a big, corrupt bureacracy with a smaller, slightly bureacracy. I have to mirror openic, and put up a openic.tld site? I have to set it up with your inane bylaws? Any moral highground you might have gained, you threw away when peering with OSRC and Alternic. On top of that, your tld's all stink of petty little hippies, who sneer at actually coming up with names that make sense? Dot parody? Dot oss? Come on. OSS is _SO_ specific to a particular "whatever" as to be unusuable to all but 1% of those who might want a domain name. Dot geek? I'm sick of being referred to as this, and I'll be damned if I want a domain name to be yet another insult directed at me. Why not an Opennic TLD, to only be used by the openic site?
I do believe your heart is in the right place, but you've already laid the foundation for something every bit as unfair and restrictive as ICANN. The only thing left is for you to become as mainstream as ICANN, and the last piece of the puzzle will be in place.
The AlterDNS Project is within weeks of being ready. New TLD's, no corps allowed, and I personally wipe my butt with any lawyer letters that even imply that they have something to do with trademark. Our software/config doesn't hijack your resolv.conf, and we encourage people to run their own web/email/irc/whatever sites on their own computers. Even those of you using dialup, can run a low traffic site on your own home computer (that's right, builtin dynamic DNS!). Don't wait to register your domain!
is .gon, for disposal of the burnt out "New Economy" startups. Have them automatically transferred or something. dot-come, dot-gone, thats what they are.
AC
i think it should be mentioned that the whole .info
.info-domains.
.info:
pre-registration process (the "sunrise" period for
trademark holders) has resulted in a profound mess.
highlights include music.info pre-registered with a
corea trademark for "dumping", analsex.info with a
morocco trademark for "sandip singh sandhu", or
newyork.info obtained by the holder of the u.s.
trademark no. "e.g. 12345". dozens of domains were
given to the holder(s) of an albanian patent for
"unknown", issued on january 2, 2040.
during "sunrise", one individual from austria has
pre-registered no less than 4981
another guy has not only successfully filed
trademarks for lawyers.info and attorneys.info, but
also for blowjobs.info and teensex.info. other
domain names, like hawaii.info, have been taken over by registrars for "testing purposes".
if you want more info on
icann forum
the internet challenge
My next comment will be ready soon, but moderators can beat the rush and mod it up early.
The weirdest of them all will be .name. According to the registrar's rules, you have to register your own legal name (ie, no "cowboy.neal.name" :), and you actually have to register it in the format of "firstname.lastname.name." That would suggest subdomain to me, so I really don't know how to the hell they are doing this.
Does anyone know? Will "bob.smith.name" actually be a different domain from "john.smith.name"?
The biggest problem that I have with the .com revolution is the confusion it has created for me when visting online businesses.
.com became so trendy, lots of UK businesses registered these domains or moved sites away from the .co.uk TLD. This causes me difficulty, because when at at .co.uk site I can be reasonably sure that the site will post and pack deliveries to/in the UK. When looking at .com's, not all of the offer overseas shipping.
.co.uk for shops first, I can usually find a price in pounds sterling together with reasonable postage options. Since everything went .com, it is much harded to find such a distinction.
.com and demand people use .co.us instead.
Since
Therefore, buy searching
Surely more TLD's are only going to move further away from the geographical reality of the world and further confuse a lot of information.
In fact, if I could start again, I'd trash
-- Mike
Force organisations to use their full name? Just imagine the chaos that would cause! smith-klein-beecha--, aol-time-warner-universal-bmg-bmi-cmc-chordant-wor d--, oh man. It's hard enough spelling barnesandnoble.com, or saurcefroge.net / soucreforeg.net / etc. Hand me the sf.net / bn.com please!
For a registar that has its head attached correctly, check out ES-NIC, the Spanish (.es) registrar. I don't know if the English translation is yet available, but when I asked for it they emailled me a copy within a day. Good service!
Thanks for the clarification, I kind of forgot that speciality in .pro.
.pro domain and I guess that shows in the domain registration fees.
But while we're at it, I wonder how the verification process is going to work for non-US residents. If I were a Chinese doctor and told you that my license number was 9828616724, how the heck are you going to figure out that it's a valid license number? I don't know of other countries, but at least here in Finland the license number for doctors contains a check digit, so you could theoretically check that to see if it's valid. It'd be easy to circumvent, however, as it's only one digit and thus you could just keep on trying until you find the correct number.
I suppose you'll have to trust the applicant in this case (unless you have an "agent" in each country), and take the domain into closer inspection only if someone complains about its validity, but that will mean you'll get quite a lot of paper work when that happens.. It sure doesn't sound like an easy job to administer the
Follow your Euro bills at EBT
What determines what's a valid "license" and licensing organization?
http://www.nic.name/
I of course have to make the note that it sounds like "nick name".
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Yeah, check out http://www.slashdot.info
Cool huh.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
www.haidacarver.com
There's no need for new TLDs, and the "correct" use of existing ones like orginally intended would solve all problems and shortcomings.
"Hierarchical" use of domainnames like in UK, Austria and Australia would also serve to take the load of DNS-servers, resulting in sleeker infrastructures and faster overall "Internet-response-times".
Moreover the prices for a domain should be double of what they are now, if registrars really are concerned about surviving.
would Slashdot be the dot in .dot?
Abuse and fraud has been widespread in the pre-registration period for so called trademark holders.
Use this search and compare
with the results found here.
The following domains have been registered fraudulently;
These don't even have trademark numbers in the registration;
space.info lunch.info toy.info
electronics.info system.info delivery.info
silver.info one.info computer.info
art.info two.info clothes.info
There is a huge amount of foreign registrations - perhaps because it is conviently impossible to double check the trademark status. But as you check common words (that can't be used as trademarks in the USA) certain registrants come up frequently and a pattern emerges. For instance, there are a lot of Korean registrants. There is a Korean supposedly accredited registrar called "Yesnic" that has registered radio.info, book.info, gift.info, land.info, food.info, photo.info, vote.info. There is a "Mr Woo" that has registered car.info, music.info, and sale.info. A " Mr. Stephen Rumney" has registered money.info, finance.info, electronics.info. A Mr. "David Singh" has registereed house.info, home.info, train.info. A Mr. "Tokio Matsumoto" in japan has registered "linux.info".
Most domains went to squatters rather than real trademark holders.
Large companies like Qualcomm are even part of the fraud. They registered "brew.info", but they
even haven't been granted a trademark for it.
Even Afilias is part of the massive squatting. They registered "phone.info" but they don't own the trademark for it either.
There are dozens more that I checked. In my cursory search, nine out of ten had invalid registrations
Shame on Afilias for letting this happen and not taking action immediately on these obviously bogus registrations. There is nothing "fair" about how they are handling registrations. If Afilias had a shred of integrity they would ban permanantly these squatters from the registry as punishment for fraudently registering names during the so-called "trademark registration".