ICANN: Uniform Rapid Suspension System
 

http://www.johnon.com/676/another-new-scam.html

http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/01...on-system-urs/

Sounds wonderful. I expect nothing less from ICANN.

wow, sounds fucked up

Just imagine the jealous people running around trying to get people banned all day. What a disaster.

Anyone who is competing for keywords you've optimized for can file for all those sites to go offline first.

Sounds wonderful.

Well, at least we know that we're in a close knit industry where nobody would do anything underhanded to hurt their fellow brother!

We are totally sheltered from this by how unified we all are, working together towards a common goal, helping each other along the way. :winkwink:

Since I plan on making my living online in the future...if someone complained to ICANN and did this to me I would sue the clown for making a frivolous complaint and of course all my legal fees too.

If people win these claims...then anyone with a non .com can also be screwed. Since the .com holder can say that he is copying the same domain name, etc. Then once the registers start losing money because the other extensions will be worthless and complain they will change the rules again. Also how about all the template websites that sell the same template to thousands of websites. Also youtube can get every tube website suspended...since they are all like youtube...they show videos. Trust me there will be guidelines to prevent fraud.

I'm gonna file one against google, see if it works

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Guilty until proven innocent.

What the... shits like this are really disturbing! :disgust

That's what a court is supposed to do.

ICANN thinks they can do it better and faster?! They want to open up a drive thru court with everything done in 5 minutes?! What a bunch of assholes.

I will probably get slammed for this, but it isnt a bad idea. In the cases we have handled that involved domain name/ trademark issues, we went right to federal court anyway. UDRP is expensive and only gets more expensive as you add domain names to the arbitration. Usually instead of fighting a federal case of trademark infringement most of the companies using infringing domain names just transferred them back instead of fighting.

It was actually cheaper and faster than going the UDRP route.

The best way to deal with this is simply file for your trademark(s). If you have a trademark then you really dont have much to worry about. We do trademarks for basically $1000 or you can do TMs yourself directly on the USPTO.gov website.