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hey, what's with all the filings and awards to complainants?...
http://www.domainnamelife.com/2012/...-panel-puts-domainers-parked-pages-on-notice/
http://www.domainnamelife.com/2012/...-panel-puts-domainers-parked-pages-on-notice/
UDRP has become a cheap lottery ticket. No wonder some thieves are trying their luck.
Filing a UDRP complaint is not risk free. There are fixed costs¹, in the eLeader case a 500 euro initial UDRP fee (1 domain, 1 panelist & CAC admin). The complainant risks an additional UDRP fee of 800 euros per provider rules or if the panel determines that it is appropriate due the complexity of the proceeding. Complainant legal counsel, if any, is of course extra. The complainant also risks the fallout of a panel decision in favor of the respondent. The respondent may raise the domain asking price by a staggering amount when that happens....absolutely risk free attempts …
Filing a UDRP complaint is not risk free. There are fixed costs¹, in the eLeader case a 500 euro initial UDRP fee (1 domain, 1 panelist & CAC admin). The complainant risks an additional UDRP fee of 800 euros per provider rules or if the panel determines that it is appropriate due the complexity of the proceeding. Complainant legal counsel, if any, is of course extra. The complainant also risks the fallout of a panel decision in favor of the respondent. The respondent may raise the domain asking price by a staggering amount when that happens.
¹ http://www.adr.eu/arbitration_platform/fees.php
If it makes you feel better, 2007-2011 WIPO¹ UDRP case volume grew 28%, while domain name registrations² grew 47%. In 2007, one out of every 70,965 registered domains got hit by WIPO UDRP. Four years later, one out of 81,404. That's a 'relative' lag and it calls for a cold one.... I figure that more, not fewer, corporate entities are going to enjoy spinning the wheel of fortune for the opportunity to gain ownership of a name…
But there have also been cases which the panel have upheld that domaining and parked pages is legitimate business. Frank Schilling comes to mind, although I don't remember the actual cases. So it can cut both ways.
I still can't get over the case where a complainant who lost a UDRP decision, merely RE-FILED the same identical case a few months later... and WON, simply because he got a judge who had a different opinion the second time around.
Crazy world of domains.
Yes. Only 1 judge. Which i think was a strategy of the complainant to pick only 1. So they'll have more to choose from next time, if they keep losing the case. By the way, i'm refering to a case taken from the thread here about the WIPO Wall Of Shame.Did you mean panelist?
Obviously, you can. Unbelievable.Can you just keep filing for the same domain?
Which means, you need to put a valid phone number on your whois data.so if they were on holiday they might come back and find their domain gone.
I still can't get over the case where a complainant who lost a UDRP decision, merely RE-FILED the same identical case a few months later... and WON, simply because he got a judge who had a different opinion the second time around.
Can you just keep filing for the same domain? Easy way to harass someone, and they have to reply rapidly so if they were on holiday they might come back and find their domain gone.