Assuming the rate is relevant, how does the rate it takes to register 1000
names compare to a year ago? If DNs were registered at a rate of 600/dy a
year ago and a 1000/dy today, then the the number of trademark/domain name
conflicts is not "declining rapidly," then the rate is staying a same (one
new conflict a day) and the number is increasing. If the rate of
registration is the same as it was a year ago, then the rate is decreasing,
but the number is still increasing. So what "clear statistical evidence"
is there that "the number of tm/dn conflicts is declining rapidly?
Also, we're talking about absolute numbers, not comparative rates. There
are millions of contracts formed every day. The number of those contracts
which are breached every day is probably infinitesimal as a percentage of
all contracts. So what?
p.s. NSI's lawyer is on the panel. Did he point these numbers out to the
panel (not that they mean what you think they mean)?
p.p.s. You never responded to the out and out misstatement you made about
your so-called study (advocacy document really). I have taken your silence
to be a guilty admission of sin.
At 06:16 PM 1/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Observations on the WIPO Interim Report:
>
>Criticism #1:
>The Interim Report�s presentation of evidence and anecdotes is
>selective and biased
>========================================================
>* The report ignores clear statistical evidence that the number of
>trademark-domain name conflicts is declining rapidly. In footnote 124
>(p. 91), WIPO notes that of the 3.4 million domain names registered by
>NSI in the open gTLDs, NSI has �received approximately 5,400
>trademark-related complaints resulting in the application of the its
>Dispute Resolution Policy in approximately 2,600 instances.� If these
>statistics are compared to earlier NSI statistics published in the
>Green Paper and the Syracuse University study, it is possible to prove
>that the number of complaints per domain name registration has fallen
>precipitously. Trademark complaints have fallen from one in every 600
>NSI names registered to one in every 1000 names registered; dispute
>resolution procedures have declined from one in every 1000 names
>registered to one in every 2,600 names registered. These declines took
>place over a period of only 6 months. WIPO�s failure to compute these
>facts indicate that it is more interested in advocacy than in
>objective exploration of the nature of the problem.
>
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