>From: Andy Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: SWIPO New Service Announcement!- We'll steal short domain name to > order! >X-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Greetings from Sunny Switzerland! > >This is not a spam! Please respond with "remove" if you want us to continue >sending you these emails. > >We've noticed that you have a domain name ending with "online". > >Would you like the use of the same name WITHOUT the "online" on the end of it? > >Interested? We can steal it for you! It's really simple, and all it costs >you is US$1500, which is way below what the domain you want would be worth. > >How can we do this, I here you asking? > >Easy! Thanks to a recent decision made by one of our appointed arbitration >panelists, the Honorable Sir Ian Barker QC of Auckland, New Zealand, we can >now steal short domains to order. > >You can read the full decision here: > >http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2001/d2001-0243.html > >but why bother, the important part is the following reasoning placed in the >decision by Sir Barker: > >"The Complainant advertises its services on the web under several names >including "Booz�Online", which the Panel is prepared to accept as a common >law mark. The Panel is prepared to hold that the name "Booz.com" is >confusingly similar to the common law mark "Booz�Online". An Internet user >with an interest in the management consulting area might easily not type >the full "Booz�Allen Hamilton" expression. If the user typed in "booz", >thinking that that would produce on an online presentation by the >Complainant, he/she would not achieve "Booz�Online", but would reach the >Respondent's inert website. The expression "Booz�Online" indicates a site >that portrays "Booz" on the Internet. So does the name <booz.com>. Hence, >there is confusing similarity." > >Yes, you read it correctly! Based on the premise that some idiot Internet >user might type a shortened version of you domain name and somehow expect >to get to your site, we can now obtain that poor website owners domain name >for you! > >But how, you ask, can we get away with this? > >Well, that's easy. You see, we wrote the UDRP, and our friends at ICANN - >who supposedly are responsible for implementation and oversight of the UDRP >- don't care what decisions come out of it. You may have heard of the >decision handing over barcelona.com to the Barcelona City Council - that >was one of our best efforts! > >Yes! ICANN don't care! They even contract themselves out of any >responsibility or involvement within the UDRP Rules! People complain to >ICANN about our decisions and get COMPETELY IGNORED!!!! > >YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO HAVE A MATCHING TRADEMARK! HOW COOL IS THAT???!!!!!!! > >The great thing is that once we manage to slip one of these suspicious >decisions though the process, our panelists are free to use it as a >precedent for any following cases, without any fear of future retribution. >How did we manage this? We convinced ICANN to put in place a UDRP that has >NO RULES in regard to bad decisions or poor performance by an arbitration >provider or panelist. And that's GOOD NEWS FOR YOU! We can make any >decision we want! It doesn't matter to us! We can even ignore evidence or >make things up if the evidence presented doesn't match our plans! You pay >us, we'll get the name you want! We own the ballpark and we've got a BAT >BIGGER THAN YOU'D BELIEVE! > >So if you want that short domain name, but were disenchanted by the >prospect of having to pay its true value, just call 1-555-DOMAIN-THIEVES >and get the WIPO wheels in motion! > >Join the list of lucky domain owners than now have the chance to get a >shorter domain name for only ONE PAYMENT OF US$1500 !!!! > >Check to see if you're on the list: > >PRIMEONLINE.COM. >DANZAONLINE.COM. >DIMENSIONSONLINE.COM. >LUXURYTRAVELONLINE.COM. (and once we've got you luxurytravel.com, and you >pay us another $1500, we'll be able to get luxury.com for you) >KSM-ONLINE.COM. >QC-ONLINE.COM. >TRS-ONLINE.COM. >EQUITABLEONLINE.COM. >SYSTEMSONLINE.COM. >OFFROADONLINE.COM. >APPOINTMENTSONLINE.COM. >BROKERSONLINE.COM. >POWERTOOLONLINE.COM. >ASIAONLINE.COM. >AROMATHERAPYONLINE.COM. >POETRYONLINE.COM. >EXECUTIVE-ONLINE.COM. >HARDWAREONLINE.COM. >OPERAONLINE.COM. >SEARCHONLINE.COM. >WB-ONLINE.COM. >VIAGRAONLINE.COM. >PHARMACEUTICALSONLINE.COM. >DYNAMICONLINE.COM. >WIRELESSONLINE.COM. >SEXONLINE.COM (yes! Get that damn sex.com name back - the easy way!!!) >JESUS-ONLINE.COM. >SKATEONLINE.COM. >CKONLINE.COM. >WINES-ONLINE.COM. >ORALSEXONLINE.COM. >4X4ONLINE.COM. >APM-ONLINE.COM. >TRAILERSONLINE.COM. >FMONLINE.COM. >WYONLINE.COM. >WHITEHOUSEONLINE.COM. >CONCRETEONLINE.COM. >BSM-ONLINE.COM. >MININGONLINE.COM. > >So don't delay!!! Get your checkbook out and call 1-555-DOMAIN-THIEVES NOW!!!!! >
