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Milton,
Not sure what has fogged your glasses here (:-) ) but the question IS
being asked of the ICANN process. How you read that as blame against
Kathy's good work escapes me. If there is a constituency problem here it
is /*not a problem *//*with* /the constituencies but */a problem
/**/for/**/the constituencies/*. It appears that the constituency (NCUC
in this case) proposes and ICANN either disposes or ignores. Not a
healthy sign for a multistakeholder consensus governance model. On
30/04/2015 4:09 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
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> Sam
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> You should be asking ICANN that question, not Kathy. NCUC, with Kathy
> in the lead, has been noting these kinds of problems for more than 15
> years. We’re happy that you and Timothe are starting to notice them,
> too. But to blame ICANN’s bias towards trademark owners on Kathy or
> NCUC is incredible.
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> I remain confused on outcomes here, not on intent. In response to
> Timothe's posting I referenced the recent decision on the
> trumpcard.com domain name as an example of how easy it is for a
> trademark holder, registering the trademark after the fact of the
> domain name registration, to take the domain name. This was a case of
> the owner in pursuit of legitimate business interests tied to that
> name for seven centuries, and operating two years before the trademark
> was applied for. The trademark was granted in pursuit of something
> else - selling credit cards. This was not a case of false
> representation nor of cyber squatting.
>
> Where were the ICANN protections there? What am I missing?
>
>
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