Re: [ga] Companion Dispute Proposal to WLS Service

[Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca>]

Actually I have to disagree...it's not the same as having a domain name.
You can't go look at the use of the domain, since it's not even
registered let alone 'live'.  You don't even know if it will ever be
used, since the WLS is just a 'place in line' and not actually a ticket.
You cant get evidence of hoarding because they havent hoarded anythign
yet.  Alll you have...is a declaration of intent. In fact...under the
WLS...it is conceivable that someone could pay for a slot for a
particular domain, wait a year or two...then...because business plans
change...decide when the domain comes free, decide...at that time they
don't want it!!!!!!

Now how on earth..are you going to account for all these possibilities?
We are dealing in futures. To me its akin to that sci-fi movie with Tom
Cruise where you get committed of a crime because they figure you are
going to do it one day....

'why wait until they have it? ' John asks.  Simple. cause until they
do....you really dont know what they are going to do with it.  If they
intended an abusive registration (I hate the term cybersquatting) they
could simply lie through their teeth. how would you prove otherwise?
look for a business plan? check financing?

John Berryhill wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > what you are propsing is the essentially the same process that happens
> > when someone registers a domain name....absent the actual registration.
> 
> But that's the point of the WLS - it provides an exclusive ability to the
> WLS slot holder to register the domain name.  So, it is really no different
> from having the domain name itself in that regard.
> 
> Since the UDRP is effective to take away unused domain names from
> cybersquatters, what difference does it make whether you have a
> cybersquatter with an unused domain name, or a WLS-squatter who is merely a
> prospective cybersquatter?
> 
> With the WLS, we'll know in advance who will get a domain name.  Why wait
> until they have it?

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