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You got a pretty much totalitarian world view. Don't you? In most countries it's perfectly legal to have 2 (or more) businesses use the same name - provided th
by leon_ 16y ago
You got a pretty much totalitarian world view. Don't you?
In most countries it's perfectly legal to have 2 (or more) businesses use the same name - provided they don't compete in the same field. In German a Microsoft that deals in software and a Microsoft that produces ice cream can co-exist.
So why shouldn't be it legal for someone in Germany to call his company FOO too? Just because you registered your name in Idaho doesn't mean that a guy in Japan is forbidden to use that name.
- VMG 16y agoSure, we can allow that, but it makes the internet more confusing and less safe. When anyone can register microsoft.x, there is the legitimate use case for the ice-cream manufacturer microsoft, but more likely it will be a scammer or a phisher or something like that. If we give up these nationalized namespaces (which aren't really enforced anyway, see .tv and and .ly etc) then we have one canoncial name for normal web sites, and microsoft ice cream could be found at microsofticecream.com By the way, I don't mean "allow" in a legal sense. Everybody can run their own DNS system and be happy with it, I use the word in a technical sense. Everybody can call his company how he prefers, this is about DNS.
- leon_ 16y ago> Sure, we can allow that, but it makes the internet more confusing and less safe. When anyone can register microsoft.x, there is the legitimate use case for the ice-cream manufacturer microsoft, but more likely it will be a scammer or a phisher or something like that. So we should give up our freedom because there are bad guys abusing that freedom?