Bruce writes:
>Also, a nit: it's not a license. Having a domain name or IP address
>grants no legal rights whatsoever, and the IP address police won't come
>to your door if you use someone else's address or domain name. It's just
>that if you don't follow the rules, nobody else will be able to talk to
>you :-).
 
Ah! but this is California...
 
I believe there is a bill in progress here that would extend trademark
protection to domain names and even email addresses!  Thus, if your
obscure TLA domain name is a trademark of someone else somewhere in the
world, California will allow them to sue you to recover the domain name,
Or if you have an email address that happens to include a trademark,
they will be able to make you give that up too, and also recover damages
(got to be able to pay the Lawyers).
 
Crazy, no?
 
G.