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If you already have your .com then you don't need new TLDs. But .aero may come in handy the next time someone wants to start a new airline (which is admittedly

If you already have your .com then you don't need new TLDs. But .aero may come in handy the next time someone wants to start a new airline (which is admittedly pretty rare, so .aero in particular was probably a dumb idea). I think the succesful gTLDs will be the ones that appear commonly in trademarks like photo, pizza, sports, mart, lube, etc. It may become much more common for the domain to be the primary trademark, even for businesses that aren't particularly internet related. Fredspizza.com would be a confusing name for a restaurant but Freds.pizza less so.

baudehlo 15y ago
> But .aero may come in handy the next time someone wants to start a new airline The problem is that ICANN has already set it up so that if you have the trademark on "flying.com" that nobody can get "flying.aero" (well they can, but you can take it off them easily). So why would you even bother with the .aero domain unless you own the .com too? This is simply a money grab by ICANN.
- extension 15y ago
  You make .aero part of your trademark e.g. crazyclown.aero. As long as crazyclown.com is not another airline, you should be fine.
  - baudehlo 15y ago
    You're very unlikely to get away with that. Try starting facebook.aero and see how long it lasts.
    - extension 15y ago
      If ICANN goes by trademark law, then you should be able to register something generic like friendly.aero without infringing on friendly.shoestore. If they don't then they are being stupid. If there are going to be hundreds of TLDs, you can't automatically protect every trademark in every TLD. Trademarks are not supposed to work like that.
      - baudehlo 15y ago
        They might not be supposed to work like that, but they do under WIPO. You can see results here: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisionsx/index-gtld.html http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisionsx/index-gtld.htm...
  - eropple 15y ago
    Yeah, but who's actually going to do that? Apparently, just about nobody.
- praxeologist 15y ago
  I don't understand the situation well enough to say if it is a "money grab" or not, but it seems like another good reason to abolish intellectual property.

baudehlo 15y ago

> But .aero may come in handy the next time someone wants to start a new airline The problem is that ICANN has already set it up so that if you have the trademark on "flying.com" that nobody can get "flying.aero" (well they can, but you can take it off them easily). So why would you even bother with the .aero domain unless you own the .com too? This is simply a money grab by ICANN.

extension 15y ago
You make .aero part of your trademark e.g. crazyclown.aero. As long as crazyclown.com is not another airline, you should be fine.
- baudehlo 15y ago
  You're very unlikely to get away with that. Try starting facebook.aero and see how long it lasts.
  - extension 15y ago
    If ICANN goes by trademark law, then you should be able to register something generic like friendly.aero without infringing on friendly.shoestore. If they don't then they are being stupid. If there are going to be hundreds of TLDs, you can't automatically protect every trademark in every TLD. Trademarks are not supposed to work like that.
    - baudehlo 15y ago
      They might not be supposed to work like that, but they do under WIPO. You can see results here: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisionsx/index-gtld.html http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisionsx/index-gtld.htm...
- eropple 15y ago
  Yeah, but who's actually going to do that? Apparently, just about nobody.
praxeologist 15y ago
I don't understand the situation well enough to say if it is a "money grab" or not, but it seems like another good reason to abolish intellectual property.