Re: 60 day period

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Christopher Palermo allegedly said:
[...]
> 
> I disagree.  The waiting period serves the legitimate purpose of relieving  
> the court system of the huge burden of private litigation over trademark and  > domain name rights.

Not to put to fine a point on it, that's a dozen lawsuits out of 
800000 registrations.  Characterizing that as a "huge burden of 
private litigation" is stretching things beyond reason.

> Those who have been though even one hotly contested  
> intellectual property lawsuit know that it can be a terrific waste of human  
> energy and court resources.  


60 days times 800000 represents an enormous waste of human energy, as well.

>The waiting period recognizes that we ought to  
> reserve court time for more important disputes.  The benefit to the court  
> system is worth the inconvenience to the registrant.

In the grand scheme of things, domain name proceedings are a tiny, 
miniscule fraction of court resources.  Traffic cases in a single big 
city are a bigger load.  It's true that trademark/domain name cases involve
more extensive legal resources on an individual basis, and the 
specialized lawyers involved are not cheap.  But on the whole, 
trademark/domain name cases are in the noise.

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