[gnso-rpm-wg] Action Items, Slides and Notes from the Working Group call held earlier today

[Michael Graham (ELCA)]

+1 

Michael R.

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From: gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org [mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Nick Wood
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 5:50 AM
To: 'George Kirikos' <icann at leap.com>; gnso-rpm-wg at icann.org
Subject: Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] Action Items, Slides and Notes from the Working Group call held earlier today

Sunrise periods were created for a series of reasons (I edited the booklet The Perfect Sunrise back in 2005) including:
To limit the liability of registries
To limit the liability of registrars
To limit consumer confusion because most internet users naturally expect a domain name matching a brand to carry genuine content To prevent internet users who registered a name matching a trademark being dragged into long and drawn out proceedings

You can hunt for smoking guns and decry Sunrise and try and stop the debate from moving on  but the majority of Governments, registries, registrars, IP, business and non-commercial interests value Sunrise. It may not be a perfect mechanism but the protection of trademarks registered under national and international law in the domain name system is one of the aims of the new gTLD program 

Let's move on 

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org [mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of George Kirikos
Sent: 11 April 2017 12:40
To: gnso-rpm-wg at icann.org
Subject: Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] Action Items, Slides and Notes from the Working Group call held earlier today

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 6:11 AM, Beckham, Brian <brian.beckham at wipo.int> wrote:
> ·         The average number of sunrise registrations per new gTLD seems to
> be about 130
> (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/cct-metrics-rpm-2016-06-27-en#2.8).
....
> For the former group, with an average of 130 registrations in Sunrise, 
> even if we accept that some of those registrations take domain names 
> from individuals wishing to engage in “free speech” it is difficult to 
> see how much closer to zero we can realistically hope to get.

Given those stats, then they're actually demonstrating that the
*benefits* of the sunrise periods have been marginal, only attracting on average 130 domain name registrations (and probably even fewer unique registrants, given some large brand owners routinely register multiple domains matching their marks in the sunrise periods). In other words, the deleterious effects of eliminating it entirely will only impact a relatively small number of domain name buyers (be they legitimate defensive registrations by bona fide brand owners or 'gaming' registrations made by others).

Furthermore, the series of data observations presented so far demonstrates a pattern of *at least* 30 or 40 strings that are routinely being gamed in sunrises (it's possibly even higher, if they've flown below the radar). 30 or 40 out of 130 would be a very high percentage of 20%+ !!

Other benefits (besides the level playing field) of completely eliminating the sunrise period would include:

1. lower costs for registry operators (i.e. no need to develop technology to handle that separate registration period), and also registrars; the savings can also be passed on to registrants

2. faster launch times for registry operators (this benefits all registrants too, since they'll get their domain names earlier under general availability).

Thank you for reminding us of the stats, Brian. They help to show that the benefits of the sunrise period to a handful of organizations don't exceed the costs imposed upon everyone else.

Another "Brian" (Scarpelli) later wrote that "edge use cases"
shouldn't drive overhaul. Well, 130 sunrise registrations seem like "edge use cases" to me.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
416-588-0269
http://www.leap.com/
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