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UDRP's reversed? Trademark Law Breached
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In addition to other differences pointed out between MSN-Search and SiteFinder, insofar as the trademark differences go there are SFAIK no trademark laws or rules governing what any browser might choose to do with its URL line, but there are laws (EG: Zuccarini) and rules (EG: numerous UDRP decisions) regarding typosquatting. OTOH some of the technical arguments against SiteFinder (EG: breaking anti-spam software) could as easily have already been used against .cc, .tv, .museum and a number of others who are, or were, doing this, some for a number of years. I dislike VeriSign as much as anyone, but I think some of these arguments are just bashing for the sake of it. -g
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"....but I think some of these arguments are just bashing for the sake of it."
I think it is pretty apparant now that "New Registry Services" such as Sitefinder and WLS are at the expense of other for-profit entities that have built business models around the dominant market share position of .com. These businesses have enjoyed and reaped the rewards of the artificial value .com holds in the market place while Verisign is left resigned to its $6 per unit. New Registry Services is nothing less than Verisign implementing business models that cash in upon the artificial valuation .com carries in the market place...but at the expense of others that are now vocally "bashing" such an outrageous and greedy concept.
I recall about a year ago Verisign attempting to open negotiations where it would be allowed to increase its wholesale price in the face of shrinking .com registrations but where the value of a .com domain name was still well above $6 per unit (as I have seen termed as the "unlocked value"). The concept of a wholesale price increase seemed to have died as a non-starter by those affected and New Registry Services then sprouted as the "Plan for Action". My guess is that there is indeed a cause-effect relationship here.
Personally, I would have much rather seen a wholesale price increase to $11 negotiated in the face of what was an obviously shrinking unit market place and no Sitefinder or WLS.
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