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By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:30:26 +0000

Kelly, I’ll ask Enrico and Traverse if he can write an article about it.

By: Kelly lieberman

Kelly lieberman — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:05:00 +0000

Andrew,
Can you follow up on your post with an article on UDRP panelists? It looks like we are all wondering the same thing about credentials….
I wonder if Traverse Legal would know anything?

By: Lda

Lda — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:00:59 +0000

A Dot-Com is a world TLD, not U.S. It is curious that these bandits would go after the world domain when they don’t even own the .US version. EFX.us is presently for sale.

Any entity that goes after a world TLD without owning a WIPO international trademark under the Madrid protocols should be ruled ineligible immediately by WIPO panels.

To think that a U.S. stock exchange ticker symbol could be the basis for world TLD asset theft is beyond nonsensical.

Just think of the consequences of a win there… a company anywhere in the world would theoretically have the right (albeit “unregistered”) to claim world TLDs !!!

Madness.

WIPO should immediately rethink their UDRP decision guidelines, if any exist, as a matter of urgency.

It can’t be left to the whim of untrained panel members, there’s too much at stake.

By: DR. DOMAIN

DR. DOMAIN — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:15:04 +0000

Way to hang tough FMA.Equifax tried to bully & got that jaw jacked.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:58:29 +0000

Very puzzling someone would lose a domain such as LH.com. The domain name could be shorthand for an infinite number of businesses.

These decisions negatively impinge the integrity of the entire process. There probably needs to be an overhaul of the criteria used to pick these panelists.

By: M. Menius

M. Menius — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:00:11 +0000

The LH.com decision is thievery … just unreal. It will be overturned. The EFX case was equally absurd and tested the integrity and logic of the deciding panelist … who happen to pass. Reverse Hijacking would/should have been found by any number of other panelists. EFX is NOT “IBM”. As pointed out by Kelly (above), there are a multitude of entities that can associate with EFX, and Equifax trying to claim exclusivity shows that greed is alive and well in America. Never cease to be amazed. These types of cases (acronyms, generics) should be waning by now as they are inherently very weak, but some WIPO and NAF panelists appear to be easily confused.

By the way, what’s the eligibility criteria for becoming a UDRP “panelist”? I’m almost afraid to know the answer.