[EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit:
>
> Maybe the policy has discouraged people from registering
> trademarked names. This of course is just a hypothesis. It
> would be difficult to substantiate.
Possibly a combination of discouragement of squatters and the inevitable
decrease in obvious names to squat, together with a growing appreciation on
the part of trademark lawyers of the effectiveness of a letter threatening
legal proceedings.
Porsche, for example, has chosen this last method for expropriating domain
names from their holders (according to Isabelle Leroux's postings), unless
they have at the same time appealed to NSI for invocation of its policy. Do
you know if they have?
In any case, NSI's intervention being as easy to exploit as it is, we're
justified in doubting whether there are a significant number of cases that
don't take advantage of it.
So we're left with a situation in which the trademark lawyers are not only
being granted a separate constituency in the DNSO, but have gone so far as
to organize a DNSO convention of their own in Washington, and are at this
very moment writing the DNSO's bylaws in collaboration with the DNSO.org
drafting team, all on the basis of what?, a thousand cases out of several
million, and half or more than half of them unjustified? Doesn't make much
sense, does it?
If only one out of a thousand domain names are ever disputed, how can the
DNSO afford to waste its time with this question, considering all the other
pressing matters it needs to deal with?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Sondow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 6:57 PM
> To: IFWP Discussion List
> Cc: Chuck Gomes
> Subject: Re: [ifwp] NSI Domain Name Dispute Stats
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit:
> >
> > Per the request of Michael Sondow, the following data is
> > provided in response to the question "how many times did
> NSI
> > invoke its Domain Name Dispute Policy?"
> >
> > During the slightly more than 5 months between the end of
> > July 1995 and the end of the year, we invoked the Policy
> 166
> > times.
> > During 1996 we invoked the Policy 745 times.
> > During 1997 we invoked the Policy 905 times
> > During 1998 we invoked the Policy 838 times.
>
> Thanks for the info, Chuck. Very interesting, really.
> Considering the large
> increase over time in registrations, it's surprising that
> the policy hasn't
> been invoked ever more frequently as well. Any explanation
> for this? Two
> that could be suggested are: 1) The policy has tended to
> discourage people;
> 2) The number of free domains of any value to resellers has
> diminished.
> Somehow, I don't think either of these is the answer. Any
> ideas?
