[gnso-rpm-wg] Largest URS Filing/Decision in History

Tue Jan 3 18:40:09 UTC 2017

As we are many months away from considering the URS I hope we don't get too into the weeds on this. Doug's article alerted me to the decision and I thought it was significant enough to alert this WG to it.

I presume that Reg's statement that the case indicated that the URS was "working" was based on the fact that Ashley Furniture obtained the suspension of 474 domains through a single filing (and she has just further posted in confirmation of that presumption). WG members who believe that this conclusion is not justified apparently believe that RPMs should have more deterrent effect to prevent infringing registrations in the first place. Deterrence is more difficult to achieve when there is little to no cost to the cybersquatter for the original registrations, which was likely the situation in this case. New gTLD pricing is within the jurisdiction of the Subsequent Procedures WG rather than this one, although we are probably free to comment upon its interrelationship with infringing behavior.

As co-chair, I shall reserve judgment at this time for how the term "working" should be defined in the context of RPMs.

BTW -- Happy New Year! Let's make it a productive one.

Best to all, Philip

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Agreed. How does one large URS filling indicate that the RPMs are working?

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On Jan 3, 2017, at 11:26 AM, Doug Isenberg <disenberg at gigalawfirm.com<mailto:disenberg at gigalawfirm.com>> wrote:

As the author of the blog post that Phil shared, I disagree with Reg's conclusion below (and am quite unsure how that conclusion was reached).  This URS case is interesting because its size makes it unusual (and, indeed, unprecedented).  It is not indicative of any trend about RPMs in general or the URS in particular.  If anything, it is a reminder that there are many domain name registrants - even in the new gTLDs -  who continue to engage in cybersquatting on a large-scale, despite the RPMs such as the URS.

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Which seems to indicate that the current RPMs are working.

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On 3 Jan 2017, at 09:34, Phil Corwin <psc at vlaw-dc.com<mailto:psc at vlaw-dc.com>> wrote:

FYI, on December 21, 2016 NAF suspended 474 DN variants of Ashley Furniture in a single URS filing.

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Best regards, Philip

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