[gnso-rpm-wg] Proposal for the elimination of Sunrise Period

Volker Greimann vgreimann at key-systems.net
Fri Apr 21 15:22:33 UTC 2017


Maybe just remove the requirement, but not the ability? Volker


Am 21.04.2017 um 17:20 schrieb Jon Nevett:
> I don't support eliminating the sunrise process.  I suspect that most 
> registries would do it anyway, so not worth having a huge debate on 
> the proposal.  Jon
>
>
>> On Apr 19, 2017, at 2:56 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org 
>> <mailto:jmalcolm at eff.org>> wrote:
>>
>> *
>>
>> Open questions 7 and 8 illustrate how the protections provided to 
>> trademark holders through the TMCH have been applied too broadly by 
>> the provider, opening the door for gaming and abuse by trademark 
>> holders, and chilling of speech by affected third parties. This 
>> proposal also bears on question 16 (Does the scope of the TMCH and 
>> the protections mechanisms which flow from it reflect the appropriate 
>> balance between the rights of trademark holders and the rights of 
>> non-trademark registrants?).
>>
>> It has been seen that the TMCH has facilitated trademark owners 
>> claiming exclusive rights in domain names that they don’t exist in 
>> domestic trademark law, such as words incorporated into design marks. 
>> Open question 10, rather than addressing the potential for abuse, 
>> actually suggests a measure that would allow even more 
>> non-trademarked terms to be locked up by priority claimants.
>>
>> As a measure to address these problems, we propose eliminating the 
>> TMCH’s Sunrise Registration service altogether. Although we also have 
>> concerns about its Trademark Claims service and will likely propose 
>> its elimination separately at a later date, the Sunrise Registration 
>> service is the most urgent to eliminate, because it creates an 
>> absolute bar to third parties registering domains that a Sunrise 
>> registrant has already claimed, whereas the Trademark Claims service 
>> results in a warning to third parties but does not absolutely 
>> preclude them from registering.
>>
>> We believe that the elimination of Sunrise Registrations would be the 
>> simplest way to address the problems of gaming and abuse that have 
>> been observed by working group members, not only in respect of design 
>> marks and geographical words, but also the misuse of dubious 
>> trademarks over common dictionary words such as “the”, “hotel”, 
>> “luxury”, “smart”, “one”, “love”, and “flower” to lock up domains 
>> unrelated to the original trademark.
>>
>> If the Sunrise Registration system were widely used by trademark 
>> holders, then it might be claimed that its elimination was 
>> disproportionate—but as we have seen, this is not the case. There 
>> have been only about 130 Sunrise Registrations per new domain.  Such 
>> a small number of claims could be more simply and efficiently handled 
>> simply by allowing those claimants to resort to curative mechanisms 
>> such as the UDRP in the event that a third-party registrant beats 
>> them to registering a domain over which they might have made a claim.
>>
>> The benefits of the elimination of Sunrise Registrations would be:
>>
>>  *
>>     An overall cost saving.
>>  *
>>     Streamlining of the public availability of domains in new registries.
>>  *
>>
>>     Elimination of the potential for gaming and abuse by putative
>>     trademark holders who claim rights over domain names that do not
>>     correspond to their domestic trademark rights.
>>
>> The costs would be:
>>
>>   * Some trademark holders would be required to resort to curative
>>     proceedings if domain names over which they have a legitimate
>>     claim are registered by third parties.
>>
>> *
>> -- 
>> Jeremy Malcolm
>> Senior Global Policy Analyst
>> Electronic Frontier Foundation
>> https://eff.org
>> jmalcolm at eff.org
>>
>> Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
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