Document Type
Article
Abstract
This paper will focus upon how the current race to establish an Internet presence, has created numerous disputes over the use, the ownership, and the registration of domain names, as well as increased the potential for liability for possible infringement of corporate trademarks. The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on how current policies regarding Internet domain name registration impairs certain trademark holders and effectively prevents them from using the Internet as a global communication medium. This paper has four parts: section one details the history of the Internet, and the structure of both domain names and the Internet; section two discusses trademark law and how it applies to and effects domain name usage; section three analyzes the inherent conflict between trademark law and the domain name structure; and section four recommends various solutions to the current domain name problem and why they are better than the current system.
Recommended Citation
Michael Tanner,
Trademarks, Internet Domain Names, and the NSI: How Do We Fix a System That is Already Broken,
3 J. Tech. L. & Pol'y
(1997).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/jtlp/vol3/iss2/3