Re: [ga] percentages and numbers of cases

[Marc Schneiders <marc@venster.nl>]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, at 23:26 [=GMT+0200], Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> At 16:13 07.04.2001 -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
> >Of course very few cases have been taken to court.  The losers who have
> >the good cases are frequently people without money and without lawyers.
> >That's one reason they lost when they should have won.
> 
> another strong tendency is that those who choose not to respond to a 
> challenge to a domain lose their domain more often than those who respond.
> 
> in the case of guinness-really-sucks.com, the defendant didn't bother to 
> reply (having registered the domain in a fit of pique after the UDRP had 
> taken guiness and/or guinnes away from him, if I remember the details 
> right, I suppose he saw no reason to bother....)

And there are reports of cases, where the respondent received the
complaint so late, that he could not respond in time, despite correct
whois details, so without any fault on his part. People are also away
for some days or a week. Bad luck then under the UDRP.

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