Comments on: Hate UDRP’s: Say Hello To Something Much Worse, The Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS): Get Ready To Lose Your Domains

By: Rod Beckstrom’s ICANN Message: Our Take

Rod Beckstrom’s ICANN Message: Our Take — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:33:14 +0000

[...] translation is that he IRT committee and the proposed URS is going to get ICANN’s [...]

By: Yet Another Reason To Support The ICA: The Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) Is Knocked Out (For Now) | Domaining Manual

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:49:58 +0000

[...] to the Internet Commerce Association (the ICA), the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proposal, will NOT be included in the third version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook for new gTLDs to be [...]

By: MHB

MHB — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:49:55 +0000

UPDATE

We have now published our comments to ICANN on this proposal:

http://www.thedomains.com/2009/07/06/our-comments-to-icann-on-the-urs/

By: Jesse Labrocca

Jesse Labrocca — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:16:18 +0000

This idea scares the hell outta domainers. It should. Those that have large portfolios of typos and trademarks are going to finally lose the domains. How is this a bad thing? Don’t domainers want legitimacy and accountability in their ranks? Apparently not.

I read the proposal. It’s fairly well written and balanced. In no part did I feel that ICANN is setting this up in a way for overt abuse. I can’t see how the URS will be abused more than the domain registration system. Currently millions of TM infringing domains exist. Until they are eradicated domaining will be looked down on. Domainers should be helping to facilitate that not fight it.

I am hoping this gets passed. If I lose some domains over this so be it.

By: MHB

MHB — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:14:39 +0000

Anthony

It would make it much easier for any trademark holder to take domains away

By: fin

fin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:36:20 +0000

if this passes then i might file SO MANY urs’s against every corporate abuser i come across. it’d be worth 200 bucks to take down their offensive web existences, if only for a few hours or days. i doubt i’ll be the only one taking such initiative.

maybe icann.org could be the 1st?

lisa – even the so-called “obvious” names could in fact have legitimate uses and may, however unlikely in reality, actually be used in legitimate ways. even the obvious needs to have a fair and reasonable examination of the facts.

pat – the ICA cannot be everything to every domainer. if registrars management of their own portfolios is a problem for small registrants well thats the nature of marketplace. dont use registrars that do things you dont like – or take them to court. as i understand it the ICA exists to lobby on behalf of all domain owners against outside forces. they are our dobermans. internal disagreements between domainers of whatever kind, be they peers or not, is not and should never be the concern of the ICA.

to put it another way: dont use the dogs to attack each other.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:10:50 +0000

Question …

Does this mean that domains.com can shut down thedomains.com if they get a

trademark ?

What happens in a case like domain.com vs domains.com ?

By: EFFECTS EVERYONE: The New ICANN Proposal Called:

EFFECTS EVERYONE: The New ICANN Proposal Called: — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:23:05 +0000

[...] closes in JUNE! * ICANN page (it

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:17:05 +0000

This is horrible news for domainers. My biggest concern is owning a generic dictionary word or an acronym that has many potential uses that a big-pocketed company will go ahead and use brute force to hijack it away from you. On the other hand, if one owns an obvious name like GoogleWebs.com then the trademark owner should have all rights to the name immediately imo.

By: MHB

MHB — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:07:43 +0000

Rick left the ICA over one issue, however he gave the ICA a lot of money while he was in.

Tucows is a member of the ICA.

The bigger issue is that the trademark lobby is spending a ton of money which is why you saw the Snowe bill and why you are seeing this bill.

What is going to happen is going to happen.

It come’s down to a simple question, you want your voice to be represented or you don’t?

There are no guarantees in life.

You can try the hardest you can and sometimes you win and sometimes you don’t.

If you don’t play you can’t win