register esa.ch ?

        this is a significant departure from FCFS which should not be done
        lightly. It establishes a precedent to poll all multi-nationals
        before registering locally.
Please note that I'm *not* saying nor implying that this
should be done lightly. And I think such cases will hardly
show up: lots of commercial multi-nationals are registered
in the various countries, so chances are minimal that some
other company will be "entitled" to "their" domain name.
For other organisations the situation is different; ESA is
a clear example of this. And what if somebody would want to
register cern.nl? I probably would think twice and contact
CERN about it.
Also note that these "name clashes" don't occur only on an
international scale: on a national scale they occur as well.
Under .NL I've had at least one such case. But that doesn't
mean I'm going to "poll" or search for all organisations that
I might suspect to have a "right" on a name.

In other words: it's the exceptions that confirm the rule;
in the case of esa.ch I see such an exception.


	Piet