Re: [wg-review] Trademarks and UDRP

[Andrew Moulden <andrew@FoolStop.com>]

At 15:08 21/02/01 +0100, Luca Muscarà wrote:

>As of possible interest to the group:
>
>REGISTRARS MEET TO DISCUSS HIJACKING OF DOMAINS
>
>
>Pushing for uniformity in the handling of Internet domain name disputes, the
>World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Tuesday kicked off a
>conference in Geneva with representatives from 66 country domain registrars.
>
>
>
>.... http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/02/20/WIPO.meeting.idg/index.html

Luca,

The following is lifted from 
http://ecommerce.wipo.int/meetings/2001/cctlds/index.html.

"At the occasion of the Conference, an announcement will be made of the 
Proposed WIPO ccTLD Best Practices, a voluntary set of intellectual 
property guidelines for the benefit of ccTLD administrators."

WIPO is seeking to extend the generally well-founded but inconsistently 
applied UDRP to ccTLDs, on a voluntary basis at least initially, but is it 
mere coincidence that 16 January saw a call from the .au Domain 
Administration - http://www.auda.org.au - to introduce competition into .au 
registration, or is it possible that this could be part of a more concerted 
agenda as far as "uniformity" is concerned?

While, whatever the agenda, this is a legitimate intention, true 
"uniformity in the handling of Internet domain name disputes" is still a 
very long way off.  It is, imo, high time that WIPO turned their attention 
to properly addressing some of very fundamental questions on global domains 
and local trademarks raised by Darryl Lynch at 
http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-review/Arc02/msg02851.html.

Regards,
Andrew Moulden

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