[ NNSquad ] Pay Attention: Alarm sounded over push for ICANN TLD "Uniform Rapid Suspensions"

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Pay Attention: Alarm sounded over push for ICANN TLD "Uniform Rapid
Suspensions"
http://j.mp/jf6O8S  (This message on Google Buzz)

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http://j.mp/iNB4FW  (The Domains)

     If trademark owners can get a domain name like they can with a
     UDRP but through a process which costs 1/10th of the price of a
     UDRP, and which is a much quicker process, then most trademark
     holders will go to the URS and not even bother with UDRP ...
     "This is absolutely outrageous."  "URS is a totally untested,
     $300, 500-word procedure by which a domain can be suspended. "
     "We don't even know its final form yet but it could get worse
     than what is in the Applicant Guidebook now, and could give the
     complainant first option to acquire a suspended domain, which
     would make it a functional equivalent to the UDRP."

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--Lauren--
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