Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

"Leo Smith" writes:
> There will be a tremendous amount of inconvenience and hassle endured by
> the wait-ers. By all counts, less than four tenths of one percent of users
> would ever be affected by any claim of trademark infringement...So why put
> so many people through the hassle and inconveience when the solution
> applies to a fraction of a percent of total users?

You know, I've never been mugged or robbed. Why should I pay for
police when its obvious that only a tiny fraction of the population
ever has need for them?

The obvious answer is this: many people will never be robbed or mugged
because the threat of the police hangs over the potential muggers.

The argument repeatedly made is that many potential disputes will
never even occur knowing that the courts are unlikely to entertain
them. Every domain holder is a potential victim of such an action, and
an environment in which most of them sleep well at night is
potentially worth the cost, just as the police may very well be worth
the cost even if you never find yourself having to call them, by
virtue of the fact that their existence may have prevented you from
needing them in the first place.

Perry
Speaking for myself, and not for the IAHC in an official capacity