Milton,
The "Syracuse Study" you note is the study you did, and you should identify
it as such. As others have pointed out, the sampling methodology you used
makes it, at best, something that can only be applied to NSI domains.
NSI's numbers talk about how many cases go to court. Not sufficient.
Antony
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> Mueller
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 6:17 PM
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> Subject: [ifwp] Analysis of the wipo interim report, part 1
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> 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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