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In reply to email conversation with Stuart Lawley, he explained "Firstly any names you own related to your exact company name etc or covered by any trademarks etc, will have rights protections that already exist."
To then follow "in other cases where the requested name is generic and there is more than one applicant we will have a 'tie-break". Note however that we only allowed names registered before a certain date to pre- reserve, i think it was some time in 2006."
Of which he continued to state that full rules of tie-break had yet to be discussed, however, he did come to prove that you could not obviously pre-reserve websites such as xxx.xxx as xxx.com had obviously been owned for such a long time.
He continued to add "The whole process is designed to deter squatters and opportunist trying to game the system and make sure existing members of the community get their matching names, wherever possible"
Now that .xxx has been approved, I could imagine those with rightful owned websites can continue business without being effected by those with websites that created problems or those trying to effect others business & maybe make a quick buck. Its for those in the long haul.
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