Re: [ga] Microsoft to Sue Cybersquatters. Is WIPO's UDRP team and ICANN not doing their duty?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted and all,

  Yes I have seen this.  However this misses the more important
point, which is ICANN established its abrogation to WIPO and
created the UDRP.  From MS's announcement tenor and stated
intention, it seem from a significant sector of the Internet
community, WIPO's UDRP team and ICANN have failed
in this approach.  As such, ICANN has created a very disruptive
circumstance which many of us at the time this relationship with
WIPO was discussed and debated knew it was doomed to
this sort of failure.  Now that seems to have come to pass.  So,
yet again ICANN's leadership continues to demonstrate a lack
of intelligence, foresight, and professionalism that is essential,
and especially to small ecommerce business, which is 48% of
ecommerce revenue...  From where I sit that is not an expectable
consequence and/or result.

Prophet Partners Inc. wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> For a good laugh, take a look at a beta tool offered by Microsoft adCenter
> Labs called Keyword Mutation Detection. The sales division of Microsoft is
> actually encouraging misspellings of company trademarks, while the legal
> department is battling it.
> http://adlab.msn.com/keyMut/default.aspx
>
> The instructions say:
> "Type a correctly spelled keyword. Examples:
> Location names, such as San Francisco,
> Company names, such as Microsoft,
> Websites, such as Yahoo,
> Celebrities, such as Britney Spears,
> Products, such as Messenger."
>
> Type in Microsoft as they suggest in their own example and you get:
>
> "mirosoft
> microsof
> microsft
> mikrosoft
> micrsoft
> mircrosoft
> mocrosoft
> mcrosoft
> icrosoft
> miscrosoft
> micro soft
> micosoft
> mircosoft
> microsfot
> micorsoft
> microsolf
> microsoft's"
>
> Sincerely,
> Ted
> Prophet Partners Inc.
> http://www.ProphetPartners.com
> http://www.Premium-Domain-Names.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "General Assembly of the DNSO" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "icann staff" <icann-staff@xxxxxxxxx>; "icann board address"
> <icann-board@xxxxxxxxx>; <jkneuer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <mbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Kathy Smith" <KSMITH@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "essential
> ecom" <ecommerce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:19 AM
> Subject: [ga] Microsoft to Sue Cybersquatters. Is WIPO's UDRP team and ICANN
> not doing their duty?
>
> > All,
> >
> >   Seems WIPO's UDRP team have been laying down on the job
> > again?  Or should have ICANN's staff been taking care and
> > doing it regulatory duty here?  If so, for shame!
> >
> > IMHO,  the ICANN staff, Bod, and ICANN's registries and
> > registrars are at least culpable...
> >
> > See:  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/fbddb398-d19e-11db-b921-000b5df10621.html
> >
> >   The Financial Times writes that Microsoft will launch a series of
> > lawsuits against cybersquatters, and will urge other companies to
> > help tackle what it says is a growing problem on the internet.
> > Microsoft says it hopes its example will encourage other trademark
> > owners to bring similar lawsuits: "Cybersquatting is a growing
> > problem for brands around the world and we hope to educate other
> > brand holders and encourage them to take action," said Aaron
> > Kornblum, senior attorney on Microsoft's internet safety enforcement
> > team.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey A. Williams
> > Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
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> >
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> >
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Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402
E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Registered Email addr with the USPS
Contact Number: 214-244-4827