> It is the business community, not the Internet community, which has attached
> to domain names an artificial and misplaced value by which it thinks domain
> names are similar to brand names....
> ...People assign value to a domain name, but it is not really
> worth anything.
A couple of interesting statements there.
"artificial and misplaced value" and "not really worth anything."
Value is value is whatever someone pays for it whether it is
artificial and misplaced or not.
Domain name ownership issues do end up in court and people do spend
money (over and above their registration costs) acquiring them. And
they do use the same arguments for domain names as they do for
brands.
-- "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.Regards brd
Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia brd@dynamite.com.au