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Dear colleagues, I have got a request from the company "Einkaufsgenossenschaft des Schweizer- ischen Autogewerbeverbands" to register the domain esa.ch. ESA is the registered name of this company that appears also on their letters. I have called their attention to the fact, that esa stands for European Space Agency in different European countries (e.g. esa.de, esa.es, esa.nl ) and that therfore it is not wise to register esa.ch for something completely different. But they insist on this name. Would you register it? Regards, Willi Huber
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Willi Huber <huber@chx400.switch.ch> writes:
But they insist on this name. Would you register it?
If it is indeed their "local name" and they have been warned about the conflict I see no reason why not. Daniel
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Willi Huber wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I have got a request from the company "Einkaufsgenossenschaft des Schweizer- ischen Autogewerbeverbands" to register the domain esa.ch. ESA is the registered name of this company that appears also on their letters.
I have called their attention to the fact, that esa stands for European Space Agency in different European countries (e.g. esa.de, esa.es, esa.nl ) and that therfore it is not wise to register esa.ch for something completely different.
But they insist on this name. Would you register it?
First come, first serve, if they do not violate any trademarks, ...
Regards,
Willi Huber
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I have got a request from the company "Einkaufsgenossenschaft des Schweizerischen Autogewerbeverbands" to register the domain esa.ch. ESA is the registered name of this company that appears also on their letters. I have called their attention to the fact, that esa stands for European Space Agency in different European countries (e.g. esa.de, esa.es, esa.nl) and that therfore it is not wise to register esa.ch for something completely different. But they insist on this name. Would you register it? In cases like this I would give international context precedence over national context. I would first contact the European Space Agency to see if they have any plans to register esa.ch in the (near) future. If they do, I would give them the "first option" on that domain, but at the same time I would ask them to register it immediately. Piet
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Piet Beertema <Piet.Beertema@cwi.nl> writes: In cases like this I would give international context precedence over national context. I would first contact the European Space Agency to see if they have any plans to register esa.ch in the (near) future. If they do, I would give them the "first option" on that domain, but at the same time I would ask them to register it immediately.
Piet, this is a significant departure from FCFS which should not be done lightly. It establishes a precedent to poll all multi-nationals before registering locally. Daniel
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> Piet Beertema <Piet.Beertema@cwi.nl> writes: > In cases like this I would give international context precedence > over national context. > I would first contact the European Space Agency to see if they > have any plans to register esa.ch in the (near) future. If they > do, I would give them the "first option" on that domain, but at > the same time I would ask them to register it immediately. Piet, this is a significant departure from FCFS which should not be done lightly. It establishes a precedent to poll all multi-nationals before registering locally. Daniel Act locally, think globally! Piet
participants (4)
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Arnold Nipper
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Daniel Karrenberg
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Piet Beertema
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Willi Huber