Some of this is a couple of weeks old... Cheers David DOT-BIZ SALES RAISE CONCERNS DOWN UNDER New Zealand domain name registrars are asking that country's Commerce Commission to investigate the dot-biz sales practices of an Australian company. The company, Internet Name Group, apparently sent out a mass mailing inviting people to pay a non-refundable A$250 for a dot-biz registration. The NZ companies argue the mailings may have breached the Fair Trading Act. <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=213349> UDRP STUDY RAISES BIAS CONCERNS A study of 3094 ICANN UDRP cases that I am releasing today finds that when providers control who decides a case (which they do for all single panel cases), complainants win just over 83 percent of the time. When provider influence over panelists diminishes, which occurs in three-member panel cases, the complainant winning percentage drops to 60 percent. In addition to the dramatic difference in outcome between single and three-member panels, the study finds that case allocation appears to be heavily biased toward ensuring that a majority of cases are steered toward complainant-friendly panelists. As of July 7, 2001, an astonishing 53% of all NAF single panel cases (512 of 966) were decided by only six people. The complainant winning percentage in those cases was an astounding 94%. WIPO, meanwhile, has failed to assign even one of its 1629 single panel cases to at least two panelists perceived to be pro-respondent. Of the 104 WIPO panelists to have decided five or more cases, all but one have complainants winning at least 50% of the time. Study at http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~geist/geistudrp.pdf Media coverage at http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB998251965684550590.htm <http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/Fu llStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20010820&dateOffset=&hub=headdex&title=Headlines&cache_key=headdexBusiness¤t_row=15&start_row=15&num_rows=1> AND NOW YOU CAN SEARCH THE DATA YOURSELF In conjunction with the release of the Fair.com? An Examination of the Allegations of Systemic Unfairness in the ICANN UDRP, I have ported much of the data behind the study to the Web. Udrpinfo.com features a searchable database of panelist UDRP records along with other UDRP resources. Beta site at http://www.udrpinfo.com ICANN CHIEF CLAIMS NET STRAIN ICANN CEO M. Stuart Lynn claims that plans to add new features and languages to Web site addresses are stretching the domain name system beyond its original capabilities. The article asserts that attempts to incorporate foreign languages into the Internet naming system has prompted fears of technical glitches and more legal battles as the system performs functions it was never designed to handle. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/025550.htm AND URGES DOMAIN-NAME SHOPPERS TO HANG IN THERE In the same interviedw, Lynn urges domain-name applicants not to give up hope in their quest to register domain names under the new .info and .biz suffixes. The domain name registration process has already caused numerous lawsuits and fraud allegations. NeuLevel, responsible for the .biz domain, has become involved in court challenges questioning the legality of its process, while Afilias has struggled to curb abuses of the pre-registration process for its .info domain. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1418021l.htm ===== David Goldstein email: Goldstein_David§yahoo.com.au phone: +61 418 228 605 (mobile) http://travel.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Travel - Got Itchy feet? Get inspired! -- This article is not to be reproduced or quoted beyond this forum without express permission of the author. 342 subscribers. Archived at http://listmaster.iinet.net.au/list/dns (user: dns, pass: dns) Email "unsubscribe" to dns-request§auda.org.au to be removed.Received on Wed Sep 05 2001 - 04:56:29 UTC
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