[gnso-rpm-wg] A Brave New World Without Sunrises or the TMCH

George Kirikos icann at leap.com
Fri Apr 14 19:47:50 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 3:13 PM,  <policy at paulmcgrady.com> wrote:
> Jeremy, the practical problem with your example is that the innocent online
> fruit salesman (of which I know of none except those lovely pears we all
> send to each other at Christmastime), is quite the rare breed.  In the real
> world, applefruit.com is a Uniregistry provided domain name that is used for
> pay-per-click ads including those related to the mobile phone, software and
> computer industry.  I've attached a screenshot but if the ICANN system
> strips it out, I would be happy to email it to you directly.

Fantastic example, and the WHOIS tells us that the owner of
applefruit.com is Frank Schilling's company, Name Administration, a
company with very deep pockets:

http://whois.domaintools.com/applefruit.com

So, why doesn't Apple sue them under the ACPA, and collect their
$100K? Don't settle, make it public, send a message. That's what
Verizon did (although they settled the iREIT one; they had other cases
too), and that probably led to a lot of typo-squatted Verizon-related
domains being deleted. Where are the lawyers who aren't afraid of
going to court?

Sincerely,

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


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