[ga] New Domebase Proposal to address .INFO Sunrise Problems

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

Dear Danny,

Would you mind posting or circulating this to folks in the General Assembly?

Thanks, Bob Connor

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NEW "DOMEBASE PROPOSAL" TO ADDRESS .INFO SUNRISE PROBLEMS

1. Hold "Land Rush I" as originally scheduled.

2. Registrars do not submit names in "Land Rush I" that are registered in
the Sunrise Period.

3. After Land Rush I, registrars give their customers the option to: 
(a) cancel name not submitted in Land Rush I and receive any applicable
refund... none, partial or complete, depending on registrar-specific
agreement; or (b) have name submitted in Land Rush II held after the end of
the Sunrise Challenge period without additional cost.

4. All names registered in the Sunrise Period are entered into Land Rush II.

5. In addition to people with names postponed from Land Rush I, new people
can pre-register names in Land Rush II.  Registrars who accepted "only one
submission per name" for Land Rush I must keep that policy for Land Rush II
to avoid "bait and switch" for Land Rush I pre-registrants.

6. The "winner" of a name for Land Rush II: (a) gets that name for a
registration fee if the name has been successfully Sunrise challenged* by
Afilias and not taken by someone with legitimate trademark rights; (b) gets
that name for a registration fee if it has been voluntarily canceled by the
Sunrise registrant; or (c) can Sunrise challenge* the name and get it if
successful for a subsidized fee (somewhere between $0 and $295) without
having to show a trademark right in the name which would be impossible by
definition. In this manner, legitimate trademark holders would not lose any
names in Land Rush II, but sunrise squatters on non-trademarked names would
face challenge by either Afilias or the Land Rush II winner.

*to protect legitimate trademark holders from name loss due to WHOIS data
processing corruption (good data entered, bad data displayed), give
original registrant a specified time-window after challenge to demonstrate
that the registrant holds legitimate trademark for the name in accordance
with Sunrise rules despite corrupted WHOIS data.



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