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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thank you Mary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Clearly, profiting from the sale of second level domains is not and should not be a cause of action for any RPMs, Our concern is intentional TM infringement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mary Wong<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 22, 2016 9:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jeff Neuman<br>
<b>Cc:</b> gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] Inadvertent Error on PDDRP Survey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, Jeff - our apologies to all for the inadvertent omission. We will fix it as soon as we can and resend the link to all community group chairs with a short explanatory note.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mary <br>
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On Aug 23, 2016, at 09:36, Jeff Neuman <<a href="mailto:jeff.neuman@comlaude.com">jeff.neuman@comlaude.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A Registry just pointed out to me that we have an error in question 7 of the PDDRP Survey that just went out which we can easily fix, but definitely need to fix.
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<h4>Question 7 currently states: “<span class="question-number">7</span><span class="question-dot">.</span><span class="question-number">
</span><span class="user-generated">Has there been any conduct by new gTLD registry operators that you believe constitutes a “substantial pattern or practice of specific bad faith intent to profit” from the sale of domain names at the second level?”</span><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, the PDDRP only applies where it constitutes a “substantial pattern or practice of specific bad faith intent to profit” from the sale of
<u>trademark infringing </u>domain names at the second level. [The Underlined portion was left out].<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The portion that was left out is KEY to the cause of action. As he jokingly put it, some believe that the sale of all second level domains constitute a bad faith intent to profit
<span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span> However, at this point the PDDRP does not apply in any situations other than selling trademark infringing domain names.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can we please fix and reissue the survey?<o:p></o:p></p>
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Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0F9347">Jeffrey J. Neuman</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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