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<p>Dear Paul,</p>
<p>I am writing as co-chair, but without the opportunity to talk
with my other co-chairs. We did a complete investigation of each
and every one of the URS cases which had taken place up to a
certain time (I believe it was the end of 2018). Each and every
case was reviewed by someone in this WG. Everyone had the chance
to participate. Harvard Law School further created detailed
tables.<br>
</p>
<p>Then we had to stop our research and analysis. At a certain
point, you have to draw a line a line and move on. In this case,
we moved on to our work on the TM Notices, Sunrise Periods and
Trademark Clearinghouse reviews. <br>
</p>
<p><i>But we have a timeline, and the GNSO Council needs our work in
Phase One to include in the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook.</i>
All of the cases you mention, and which we appreciate, fall after
our window of analysis. <br>
</p>
<p>Quick personal note that I think our recommendations clearly
address at least one issue that you raise in your email. One, and
I quote, <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:red">"Effectively blank – just a
repeat of the URS rules Not
even mention of what was being claimed" </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><span
style="color:red"></span>==> this is being addressed in a
URS recommendation going out for public comment. <br>
</span></p>
<p>Best, Kathy<br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"></span>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/11/2019 11:49 AM, Paul
Tattersfield wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">Dear
All,<br>
<br>
Here are 3 example URS determinations that seem very
troubling from the public
information available. As I pointed out on the call last
week, the
recommendations from the WG subgroups fail to prevent what
seem to be very
problematic determinations occurring. I hope all working
group members will
agree this situation in the absence of further facts is
totally unacceptable
and those leading the working group will take the
necessary action to ensure
the initial report will include recommendations to ensure
nothing like this
will be allowed to happen again.<br>
<br>
Yours sincerely,<br>
<br>
Paul.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>cfa.club<span> </span></b><span>
</span><span> </span>Creation
date <span style="color:red">July 17, 2017</span><br>
Registrar<span>
</span><span> </span><a
href="http://www.eachnic.com" moz-do-not-send="true">www.eachnic.com</a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB">Complainant submitted<span> </span><span>
</span>September 19,
2019<br>
Commencement<span> </span><span>
</span>October 7, 2019<br>
Default Date<span> </span><span>
</span>October 22, 2019<br>
<span style="color:red">Domain </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:red"
lang="EN-GB">Suspended</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><span>
</span><span> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">October
25, 2019</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><br>
Examiner<span>
</span><span> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">Flip
Jan Claude Petillion<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB"><a
href="https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1862966D.htm"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1862966D.htm</a><br>
Claimant<span> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">CFA
Institute of Charlottesville<br>
Represented<span> </span>DLA Piper LLP (US) of
Washington<br>
Respondent<span> </span>Hao Ming of Beijing,
International, CN.<br>
Rationale<br>
<i><span style="color:red">The Complainant
holds that the Respondent is attempting to disrupt the
business of a competitor
but provides no proof that the Respondent is one of
its competitors. However,
the passive holding of a domain name can constitute
bad faith registration and
use, especially when combined with other factors such
as the respondent
preventing a trademark or service mark holder from
reflecting its mark in a
corresponding domain name,</span> the failure of the
respondent to respond to
the complaint, inconceivable good faith use, etc. (See
e.g., Telstra
Corporation Limited, Telstra Corporation Limited v.
Nuclear Marshmallows, WIPO
Case No. D2000-0003; Myer Stores Limited v. Mr. David
John Singh, WIPO Case No.
D2001-0763; Liu.Jo S.p.A. v. Martina Hamsikova, WIPO
Case No. D2013-1261). In
the present case, Respondent is passively holding the
disputed domain name as
it does not resolve to any active</i></span><i><span
lang="EN-GB"> website. <br>
<br>
</span></i><i><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">It
is inconceivable to the Examiner that Respondent was
unaware of Complainant and
its trademark rights when it registered the disputed
domain name which is
identical to Complainant’s CFA registered trademark.
Given the well-known
character of Complainant's CFA trademark, Respondent
must have had
Complainant's trademark in mind when registering the
disputed domain name. This
is further supported by the fact that the Respondent
registered the disputed
domain name under the new gTLD “.CLUB”, which increases
confusion as the Complainant’s
members can be considered as being part of a club.
Moreover, Examiner finds
that, given the well-known character of the
Complainant’s CFA trademark, it is
difficult to imagine any future good faith use of the
disputed domain name by
Respondent. <br>
</span></i><i><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><br>
</span></i><i><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">Respondent
did not file any response to contest the above.
Therefore, Examiner finds that
the third element for Complainant to obtain the
suspension of a domain name
under URS 1.2.6.3 has been proven<br>
<br>
<br>
</span></i><b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">cfa.community</span></b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><span>
</span><span> </span>Creation
date <span style="color:red">September 24, 2019</span><br>
Registrar<span>
</span><a href="http://domains.google.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">domains.google.com</a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB">Complainant Submitted<span> </span><span>
</span><span> </span>October
8, 2019 <br>
Commencement<span> </span><span>
</span>October 8, 2019 <br>
Default Date<span> </span><span>
</span>October 23, 2019<br>
<span style="color:red">Domain </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:red"
lang="EN-GB">Suspended</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><span>
</span><span> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">October
23, 2019</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><br>
Examiner<span>
</span><span> </span>Dawn Osborne</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB"><a
href="https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1862966D.htm"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1862966D.htm</a><br>
Claimant<span> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">CFA
Institute of Charlottesville<br>
Represented<span> </span>DLA Piper LLP (US) of
Washington<br>
Respondent<span> </span>Contact Privacy Inc.
Customer 1245526592 of Toronto, ON, CA<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB">Rationale<br>
<span style="color:red">Effectively blank – just a repeat
of the URS rules Not
even mention of what was being claimed</span><br>
<br>
<br>
<b>cfa.plus<span> </span></b><span>
</span><span> </span><span>
</span>Creation
date <span style="color:red">September 25, 2019</span><br>
Registrar<span>
</span><a href="http://www.west.cn/"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.west.cn</a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB">Complainant Submitted<span> </span><span>
</span><span> </span>October
16, 2019 <br>
Commencement<span> </span><span>
</span>October 17, 2019
<br>
Response Date<span> </span><span> </span><span>
</span>October
29, 2019<br>
<span style="color:red">Domain </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:red"
lang="EN-GB">Suspended</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><span>
</span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">October
29, 2019</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><br>
Examiner<span> </span><span>
</span>David
L. Kreider<br>
<a
href="https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1866970F.htm"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1866970F.htm</a><br>
Claimant<span> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">CFA
Institute of Charlottesville<br>
Represented<span> </span>DLA Piper LLP (US) of
Washington<br>
Respondent<span> </span>Peng Cheng Li of He Nan,
International, CN<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB">Rationale<br>
</span><i><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:red"
lang="EN-GB">“The Respondent submits in support of his
Response a certificate of
qualification issued to the Respondent, Peng Cheng Li (</span></i><i><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:red">李鹏程</span></i><i><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:red"
lang="EN-GB">), by
the China Commodities Association and dated November
2012, along with a
business license dated 23 September 2019, pertaining to
a Shanghai-based
information technology company. Respondent’s said
certificates each bear
the legend: “For use as evidence in the CFA Institute’s
<cfa.plus>
litigation only”. <br>
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB"><br>
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:red"
lang="EN-GB">Respondent concedes that he “had made no
formal use of the domain
name” by the time he received notice of the commencement
of these URS
proceedings on October 17, 2019. Significantly,
moreover, the Panel notes
the complete absence of evidence to show demonstrable
preparations to use the
Disputed Domain Name, or a name corresponding to the
domain name, in connection
with any bona fide offering of goods or services.<br>
<br>
The Panel concludes that the Registrant intentionally
sought to disrupt the
business of a competitor or use the <cfa.plus>
domain name to attract for
commercial gain, Internet users to Registrant’s web site
or other on-line
location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the
Complainant’s CFA
Mark, as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or
endorsement of
Registrant’s product or service on that web site or
location</span></i><i><span style="color:red"
lang="EN-GB">, or both.<br>
</span></i><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><br>
<br>
<b>cfa.business</b><span>
</span>Creation date August
28, 2019<br>
Registrar<span>
</span><a href="http://www.godaddy.com/"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.godaddy.com</a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB">Complainant Submitted<span> </span><span>
</span><span> </span>October
16, 2019 <br>
Commencement<span>
</span>October
17, 2019 <br>
Default Date<span> </span><span>
</span>November 1, 2019<br>
<span style="color:red">Domain </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:red"
lang="EN-GB">Returned</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><span>
</span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">November
1, 2019</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><br>
Examiner<span>
</span>Richard
W. Hill<br>
<a
href="https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1866971D.htm"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1866971D.htm</a><br>
Claimant<span> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">CFA
Institute of Charlottesville<br>
Represented<span> </span>DLA Piper LLP (US) of
Washington<br>
Respondent<span> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-GB">Domains
By Proxy, LLC /
DomainsByProxy.com of Scottsdale, AZ, US<br>
Rationale<br>
“<i>Complainant states: "By creating
confusion through its registration of a domain name
wholly comprised of CFA
Marks, Respondent is attempting to disrupt the business
of a competitor, which
is evidence of bad faith registration<span
style="color:red">."
Complainant provides evidence showing that the
disputed domain name is not being
used. Since the standard of review in URS proceedings
is "clear and
convincing", and Complainant does not explain why
failure to use the
disputed domain name could constitute bad faith use</span>,
the Panel finds
that Complainant has not satisfied its burden of proof
for this element.”</i></span></p>
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