All,
I will have to join today's call late, but want to respond to Liz's
point about the relatively low level of defensive registrations as a
percentage of domain name portfolios, and the cost impact of defensive
registrations.
Even if a rights holder has defensive registrations as a low
percentage
of the names in its portfolio, the associated cost may be quite high.
Taking Intel as an example, the costs set aside for sunrise
registrations for new TLDs introduced each year reflects a higher
percentage of the annual budget than you might infer from the
relatively
low percentage of defensive registrations in the overall
portfolio. The
cost for a single defensive registration (the registry cost plus the
cost I am charged by a domain name management vendor to manage the
application process) can be in the thousands of dollars. The cost
impact of defensive registrations is high when you look at the initial
cost relative to other registrations.
Kelly
Kelly W. Smith
Senior Attorney
Trademarks & Brands
Intel Corporation
Phone: (408) 765-1604
Facsimile: (408) 765-6071
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From: owner-gnso-pro-wg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-pro-wg@xxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Liz Williams
Sent: May 09, 2007 1:00 AM
To: gnso-pro-wg@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gnso-pro-wg] Online polling results: summary
Colleagues
Ahead of tonight's meeting, please review this link to the poll
results. http://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?
code=umTLyTqHJjKfWqTxYwzL
I am currently verifying some of the 41 respondents to ensure the
veracity of the responses. The following caveats apply to the
summary -- the 43 responses (41 online and 2 offline) is not a
statistically significant sample of a defined group; the
questionnaire was designed to elicit top line summary responses to a
wide range of questions; no special preparation was made for the
summary to follow robust survey methodology.
Summary -- Section I
More than half identified themselves as rights owner representatives
or IPR owners; only 5 identified themselves as registrars or
registries
Note in question 6 that there is an almost even split between an IP
claim and the use of sunrise registrations.
Note that in question 7 the rights people sought to protect.
Note in question 14 the even spilt between those respondents who
owned or didn't own defensive registrations
Of particular interest is the section on defensive registrations --
note the low levels of defensive registrations as a percentage of
domain name portfolios
[[I did a random selection of the word "rainyweather" (because it's
raining in Brussels today) on the MelbourneIT (because that came into
my head first) website across info, .co.nz, .eu, .com.au, .org
and .biz. The prices of a one year registration are, for most of the
TLDs, about $35 per year on that site. It would be helpful to have
some actual numbers on costs of registrations for a portfolio of
registrations to see the cost impact of defensive registrations.]]
Summary -- Section II
Note the level of implementation budget expenditure on sunrise
mechanisms and the other responses in that section which do not
include many registrars and registries.
Speak to you all on 9 May to resolve how to represent the materials
in the Report. I haven't seen any correspondence on proposed
guidelines as yet.
Liz
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Liz Williams
Senior Policy Counselor
ICANN - Brussels
+32 2 234 7874 tel
+32 2 234 7848 fax
+32 497 07 4243 mob