On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 08:19:08PM -0500, Mikki Barry wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Carl Oppedahl wrote:
> >> At 12:30 PM 1/4/99 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
> >
> >Your statement above indicating "thousands" is just such a wild
> >estimate as I had in mind, actually -- you have made statements like
> >that several times over the past couple of years.
>
> Uh, Kent...you'll have to do better than that. NSI deals with thousands of
> domain disputes per year. How it adjudicates those disputes is kept mostly
> secret. Therefore, this is hardly a "wild estimate."
Are you disagreeing that it is "wild", or that it is an "estimate"?
Grant me that "wild" is a rather imprecise term, OK?
You are correct, of course, that the NSI IPO made some of the numbers
more concrete. However, I was merely trying to point out that Carl
does make estimates.
Here's an example of another estimate of Carl's from the newdom list,
before the IPO -- this was just a quick 30 second scan. I'm quite
sure that a more extensive look will find several other cases, and,
if my memory serves, ones that went into more detail:
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 3 07:21:17 1997 From:
>Carl Oppedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 07:24:11 -0400
To: Duane Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NEWDOM: On-hold Domains: How many in dispute?
Reply-To: Carl Oppedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 12:29 PM 05/02/97 -0700, Duane Little wrote:
>What I want to know is, what proportion of them [on-hold domains]
>are on hold because of
>trademark challenges under the current dispute policy?
Many hundreds, anyway.
[..discussion NSI's antics in the Roadrunner case..]
>Further, how
>many have changed hands for the same reason?
Many thousands, at least.
[..discussion of how NSI policy gives TM owners unfair power..]
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