Why not? The "judge" was Argentinian, the complainant Brazilian, the victim lives more up North.
> Are the rulings random?
Yes. Check out the wipo.org website. The decisions are posted there (after weeks, or even months?).
> Is there some method behind the madness?
Of course there is! It is called $$. Complainant choses who the judge is to be. He does not have to go to WIPO, there are other arbitrating organizations. But WIPO advertises its high percentage of decisions in favor of the complainant...
NetSol is simply trying to get there monopoly back through a back door. Let's all complain to ICANN, though that will not help. Let me guess: this auction is an unofficial test bed for the new TLDs that nobody needs but that surely will come if we read the ICANN site... They might also auction those in stead of selling them for a mere $6 (which is what other registrars pay NetSol). I am sure business.biz will fetch more than $6 or $35 (which is what NetSol charges to customers). Why stick to the first come first serve principle? It isn't good for business. I think I'll set up a registry, yeah! If you think I'm nuts, look at dot.tv.
Yes, I do know of some juicy names to grab. A company now apparently defunct owned a whole bunch of Dutch placenames.com. They expired and have partly been released recently (a couple a day...) and grabbed by one new company using the very same ISP (websites haven't changed...). More are still to be given back to the market. Pity for the script running ISP/new company. They will have competition from money people now at auction. Great loss to the value of scripting abilities:-)
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Why not? The "judge" was Argentinian, the complainant Brazilian, the victim lives more up North.
> Are the rulings random?
Yes. Check out the wipo.org website. The decisions are posted there (after weeks, or even months?).
> Is there some method behind the madness?
Of course there is! It is called $$. Complainant choses who the judge is to be. He does not have to go to WIPO, there are other arbitrating organizations. But WIPO advertises its high percentage of decisions in favor of the complainant...
NetSol is simply trying to get there monopoly back through a back door. Let's all complain to ICANN, though that will not help. Let me guess: this auction is an unofficial test bed for the new TLDs that nobody needs but that surely will come if we read the ICANN site... They might also auction those in stead of selling them for a mere $6 (which is what other registrars pay NetSol). I am sure business.biz will fetch more than $6 or $35 (which is what NetSol charges to customers). Why stick to the first come first serve principle? It isn't good for business. I think I'll set up a registry, yeah! If you think I'm nuts, look at dot.tv.
Yes, I do know of some juicy names to grab. A company now apparently defunct owned a whole bunch of Dutch placenames .com. They expired and have partly been released recently (a couple a day...) and grabbed by one new company using the very same ISP (websites haven't changed...). More are still to be given back to the market. Pity for the script running ISP/new company. They will have competition from money people now at auction. Great loss to the value of scripting abilities :-)