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Trademarks were incorrectly ported to the domain name space. Normally a trademark applies to an industry. For example, I know of a company called "Apple Movin
by makecheck 14y ago
Trademarks were incorrectly ported to the domain name space.
Normally a trademark applies to an industry. For example, I know of a company called "Apple Moving" and I'm sure no one confuses it with the "Apple" of the tech world.
In my opinion a site should be required to register only in an industry or other broad category (think Usenet). For instance maybe I can say http://www.apple.computers http://www.apple.computers. These industry domains should also be localized automatically, e.g. typing http://www.apple.ordinateurs http://www.apple.ordinateurs should bring you to exactly the same domain; the words used for standard industry terms in all languages would be publicly available.
What should not exist is a globally-screwed-up namespace that anyone with a checkbook can warp to suit their own interests.