On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, at 14:53 [=GMT-0500], Michael Schultheiss wrote: > My client had a domain name that was allowed to expire due to > circumstances beyond their control. It has since been reregistered by > someone with no obvious connection to the domain and it has since been > pointed at a pornographic website. My client is not opposed to > following the UDRP procedures to regain control of the domain but if I'm > reading it correctly, my client will have to pay approximately $2000 to > WIPO or one of the 3 similar organizations and if they win, they can do > whatever they want with the domain and the only punishment the current > registrant will face is loss of the domain. How is that fair?
The UDRP is more than fair to people like your client trying to get a name cheap. If somebody messed up renewal of a domain, why don't they bear the consequences and pay for their fault? Make an offer to the people who have it now? Any domain that expires is deleted from the dns weeks before. Why didn't they notice it? Did they use it at all?
