Domain Dispute Sanity

Silver A writes: "In a recent action, the WIPO has ruled that aollnews.com is "confusingly similar" to aolnews.com, and ordered the domain transfered to AOL; however, even without a response from the holder of the domain, the WIPO ruled in regards to "fucknetscape.com" that: 'The Panel regards it as inconceivable that anyone looking at this Domain Name will believe that it has anything to do with a company of such high repute as the Complainant. It is manifestly, on its face, a name, which can have nothing whatever to do with the Complainant. It is a name, which, by its very nature, declares that it is hostile to Netscape. ... The Panel simply does not understand why on earth the Complainant would ever wish to register this Domain Name.' So, finally some sanity from the WIPO regarding protest sites." Well, you must remember that these arbitration firms have a stable of arbitrators; even though the system is palpably biased toward large firms (see earlier stories), at least some of the arbitrators have to approach these cases more reasonably.

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Frist p05t, hours later.

[Yebyen]

You people should be ashamed of yourselves.