Lack of Contracts with ICANN for UDRP providers is Unacceptable

[George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

To followup on our prior comments:

http://forum.icann.org/lists/cac-prop-supp-rules/msg00000.html

we'd like to echo the concern of others that the UDRP providers are not 
contractually bound by any agreement with ICANN. It is very disturbing that 
this was uncovered ten years after the UDRP has been in place, and is an 
unacceptable condition that needs to be corrected immediately.

Furthermore, ICANN staff have been derelict in their duties to provide a 
complete set of UDRP proceedings, which are linked to from the page at:

http://www.icann.org/en/udrp/

The "List of Proceedings Arranged by Commencement Date" hasn't been updated 
since 2007:

http://www.icann.org/en/udrp/proceedings/date-index.html

The same goes for the "Search Tool for the UDRP Proceedings Index (updated 
daily)". The "Search Tool for UDRP Decisions (full-text, updated weekly)" 
doesn't work at all (at least in Safari), and the "Statistical Summary" was 
updated in 2004!

I strongly suggest outsourcing this ongoing task to an independent party such 
as Michael Geist of UDRPInfo.com fame or via competitive tender. As discussed 
previously:

http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga-200709/msg02391.html

decisions should be in a standardized XML format (i.e. "UDRPML") to simplify 
analysis and redistribution of decisions. 

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.leap.com/