The UDRP: Is It Un-Fair.com?

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 20, 2001 @07:51AM from the selling-to-the-stronger-bidder dept.

typecast writes "A study of more than 3,000 UDRP decisions by a Canadian law prof. suggests that ICANN's domain-dispute resolution process may be even more unfair than Slashdot types already believe. This article says the study confirms organizations such as WIPO and the National Arbitration Forum decide most cases in favor of trademark holders. But it also says it's clear that individual arbitrators with strong "anti-cybersquatting" records are the ones most likely to be handed UDRP cases. A copy of the study and a minimal database of UDRP-panelist stats can be found at Geist's own UDRPInfo Web site."

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Oh, damn by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 07:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

at least I tried
WARNING: GOATSE.CX LINK by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Be careful.
1. Re:WARNING: GOATSE.CX LINK by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  put the CNN link in his sig to kill the domain and put in his own. Very clever...
Re:I remember reading this... by Tuxinatorium · 2001-08-20 08:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

WARNING!!! goatse.cx link! mod it down! He's using the same trick as that other post on the last article!

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Repeal the DMCA!
Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What's wrong, jealous that I've got you twice now? Try again, suX0r.
who cares? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The internet is dead and microsoft owns the world. Quit squatting the net for your personal use and get out of the way so commerce can use it the way it's meant to be.
I R0X0R! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

2199017th[*} POSTUS, BEEEEOTCHAE!!!

(sorry, I couldn't do that in proper Roman numerals, 'cuz I'd get slapped down by the lame , er, lameness filter. And bog knows, I am anything but lame!!)

pleeeeease????!!!
Re:Whatever by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

but what of us poor, lame annoymous cowards?!!

(oh, wait, I guess that means that logged in users are the threat now, heh.)

goat!
Re:The whole internet is unfair! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

May we know your real name? You made me curious.. :-)
Michael Bolton? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Is that your real name?
1. Re:Michael Bolton? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Are you related to him? What's your favorite song?
  
  -- The_Messenger
Re:Whatever by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Damn, moderators are coming out of the woodwork -- I'm probably already IP banned. Not very sporting, old chaps. But then, they're all beedy-eyed weeinies with the souls of buerecrats.
Ooooh... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Damn, you're smart. It only took you about 40 minutes to figure out what took me 40 seconds.

Jesus, does it hurt to be as stupid, talentless, clueless, and dickless as you are?

God damn, you're a moron. Go home and spank your mother.

Idiot.
I don't think that works anymore by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I've been down-modded for WAY more than the 5 points, and that's all been in the past 3 hours, and I haven't been IP banned yet... I think /. finally stopped censoring people.

Nah...

Wind_Walker, originator of the hidden goatsex link in .sigs...
Re:Logging in by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Sorry, you people with user accounts can berate the shit out of us ACs, but I'm sticking to this out of principle. I'm not gonna set up an account just to make trolling easier.

(hell, I never bother to log into the account I do have when making legitimate posts. The moderators are just as idiotic as the trolls around here.)

This is gonna be an interesting couple of weeks since the usual bunch of idiots decided to raise the stakes in the arms race.
Re:Even better... by Flarners · 2001-08-20 08:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic
I've been meaning to fool with my sig for a while now. I noticed the "bait-and-switch" sig trick a few months ago, but looks like you beat me to actually employing it :-) Anyway, here's something to try:
- Make a regular-looking karma-whoring link post. An obvious target is to give the "archive.nytimes.com" no-registration link in any story that links to a New York Times article. Put the link in your sig, of course.
- Wait to be modded up to +5.
- Once there, change your sig to point the link to goatse.cx.
- Laugh your ass off, and get a new account; the account you do this with will be bitchslapped in seconds.
Evil, huh? Good thing I'm too lazy to ever actually do it.
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"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepeneur'." -George W. Bush
Re:Logic bombs away! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

How'd you do that?
post by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

first
Re:Even better... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Even better, make it link to Goatse through babelfish or something, so people won't even notice if they hold the mouse over the link and look at the address.
Re:Logic bombs away! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 08:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

links in the sig aren't exposed by slashcode.
hey.. who owns this? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-20 09:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

http://alyson-hannigan-and-hot-grits.com
?
?
I would love to cybersquat there!