Re: Thread 2: 60-day issue

[Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>]

>Leo Smith wrote:
>> 
>> Comment on 60 day:
>> The 60 day proposal is there to meet the desires of the Trademark
>> organization.  Should IAHC offer this 60 day benefit to the trademark group
>> gratis...or should the inplementation of the 60 day rule be conditioned
>> upon the trademark group paying for the costs associated with the benefit?


I am sorry but that view is mistaken.  The effect of the 60-day provision
would be to *help* domain name owners compared to the present (terribly
flawed) regime in which NSI always takes the side of the party who seeks to
take away a domain name.  

Under the present regime, there is little to hold back a trademark owner
who merely covets a domain name (but who cannot demonstrate any actual
trademark infringment) from trying to deprive some domain name owner of its
domain months or years after it has been put into use.  Indeed NSI will do
it gratis (and domain name owners pay NSI's costs in doing so.)  Under the
60-day proposal such trademark owners face a very compressed time period to
try to do this, and after the 60 days is up they will have a more difficult
time at it.  I urge you to consider that in a very real sense the 60-day
proposal cannot be termed a "benefit to the trademark group", but is
instead a taking away.