More trademark holders are using trademark law to silence political and religious speech. This is exactly what our organization is attempting to prevent. This particular case was most unsettling since the judge found no First Amendment issue whatsoever. If linking to a site is enough to classify you as commercial, then PETA and many others making political or religious arguments will also be silenced. The First Amendment rights to free speech are taking a back seat to commercial interests, especially trademark interests.
Commerce is only a small sub-set of the communications on the Internet.
The rights of individuals to disseminate their messages must be preserved. The predictions turned out to be accurate and DNRC regularly works with domain name owners who have received cease and desist letters against their domain names where there is no infringement or likelihood of confusion. DNRC also criticized the closed-door manner in which the first Policy, and its subsequent revisions, were created.