shakedown by chinese domain registrars ??

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hello all,

I've been following this thread with interest. CLUE is a registered
"At-Large Structure" within ICANN and I'm fairly deeply involved in its
public advisory committee.

I've asked Dave for the original letters and will be seeing what ICANN
can do to prevent -- or at least warn against -- this kind of practice.

The Chinese registrar is likely taking advantage of widespread paranoia
within the IP legal community in regards to trademarks as applied to
Internet domains. There are obviously some brands that will spend
whatever it takes to be registered under every top-level domain possible
to prevent trademark infringement. These guys from China appear to be
spreading/fueling FUD amongst smaller companies using data improperly
obtained from WHOIS records etc.

- Evan

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