: From: Carl Oppedahl
: But yes, I suggest that even if the ratio is 4000 to one, the waiting
: period is not crazy. Keep in mind that all 3999 of the people whom you
: suggest would be needlessly going through a wait, do in fact benefit, as
: each of them enjoys ownership of a domain name that is less vulnerable to
: reverse domain name hijacking than it would be in the absence of the 60-day
: period.
The "innocent" users receive NO BENEFIT WHATEVER!!!
Using .com for an actual case history, so far 800,000 .com URL users have registered in total, and 799,800 of them have had no problem with claims from trademark rights holders.
If all 800,000 .com URL registrations had instead been subjected to the 60 day wait, those same 799,800 URL users that had no problem without the wait would still have no problem if the wait had been imposed.
The only URL users who MAY (but not necessarily WILL) benefit from the 60 day wait are a percentage of the 200 URL users (out of 800,000 total users) who, without the wait ended up in a trademark dispute, but with the wait, might have avoided a dispute. The percentage of URL users in trademark disputes is such a minuscule part of the total...less than ONE TWENTIETH OF ONE PERCENT!
The only real benefit of the wait goes to those whose responsibility it is to protect existing trademark rights. The wait becomes an additional piece of armament in the trademark defender's arsenal. If WIPO sets up their own database on trademarks, and if WIPO's computers can have daily access to new CORE URL registrations, then trademark dispute letters from WIPO should go out very quickly to the new registrant, putting the registrant on notice that a trademark infringement claim may exist. The responsibility to police the Internet in search of trademark infringers rests with the trademark holder. To hold up the rights of 799,800 URL users who infringe on NO TRADEMARK WHATEVER, just to catch the 200 who may infringe, is tremendously unfair.
There should be absolutely no wait time whatever...not even a minute.