On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Rothnie, Warwick wrote:

> Also, WIPO is developing a treaty to lay down some ground rules about these
> types of disputes:

Hi Warwick,

The WIPO has been making some alarming decisions and what
started out as a good idea is turning into a bit of a
nightmare on inconsistant, arbitary and plain wrong
decisions especially on the spelling front. And the
cost (to defendants) can be very high ....

eg How Madonna.com was awarded to one Madonna Ciccone is
probably the worst but others like yawho.com transferred to
yahoo, altavisga.com to altavista, 10-10-811.com transfer
(to some telco)  buyasyouview.com - transfer, icqwap.com and
wapicq.net transfer to aol, bigpons.com transfer to telstra
- what a ridiculous decision that is!, blackboad.com to a
company called 'Blackboard', .....

See an article at for a similar view.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/12824.html

Quote from item:

"And so? 
We think this has all gone far enough. Domain names have
become such big business that the only way to secure a fair
and transparent system - where the small man is as valued as
the big company - is to pull it into the legal system. That,
after all, is exactly what the legal system was set up to
do."


regards doug
 

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