Question: Do you support the creation of new political and social top-level domain names, such as .labor and .environment, that can be appended to known companies and governments, such as www.nike.labor, which are run by political activists and not the trademark owner themselves?

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Lawrence Lessig - posted on 2000-10-07 07:04:54 I don't believe trademark law, properly interpreted, requires that company X control X.sucks, so I don't see why independent organizations couldn't control critical or independent domain names. But I support this in just the sense that I believe it should be permitted to happen. I don't believe ICANN should push any particular solution. Emerson Tiller, J.D., Ph.D. - posted on 2000-10-04 19:49:25 YES, I would support them. But they need to come from the public, not ICANN. ICANN needs to open up the TLD allocations so that these and other TLDs can come to be. Lyman Chapin - posted on 2000-10-04 08:15:38 Yes. I support the creation of many new TLDs of all types, and I don't think that using Nike in www.nike.labor should automatically be considered an infringement of the trademark (although it could be, if someone used www.nike.labor to sell running shoes, for example). However, ICANN doesn't get to decide whether or not my opinion about trademark infringement is correct - that's a question of law, not ICANN policy.