Trademarks are incredibly easy and cheap to get. Spammers already pay for domains and servers. Adding the cost of a trademark doesn't make things much more difficult I'm afraid.
Also which country's trademark office would be the gate keeper? There's one in every country. I assume you mean the USA trademark database in this case, but that only covers US trademarks.
"Trademarks are incredibly easy and cheap to get. Spammers already pay for domains and servers. Adding the cost of a trademark doesn't make things much more difficult I'm afraid."
This is irrelevant to the purpose of the "prototype web". It is a different problem. The purpose of the prototype web is not "to make things much more difficult" for "spammers". Its purpose is to _separate_ the commercial web from the non-commercial web and to _categorise_ the commercial web in a way that makes web search easier.
Given that trademarks are allegedly "easy and cheap to get", akrymski could share with us how many he has registered. Surely it would be equal to the number of domain names he has registered since the UDRP favours trademarks registrants and trademark holders have the additional option of using the ACPA. It would make sense to have an "easy and cheap" trademark for each domain name, registered in every class in every territory.^1 How much would that cost.
1. Because domain names have no such limitations.
"Also which country's trademark office would be the gate keeper? There's one in every country. I assume you mean the USA trademark database in this case, but that only covers US trademarks."
It depends on the ISO-3166-1 country code TLD. If the country code is US then the USPTO would be the applicable office.
Also which country's trademark office would be the gate keeper? There's one in every country. I assume you mean the USA trademark database in this case, but that only covers US trademarks.