[gnso-sti] Transfer of domain name to claimant after successful URS

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

The following comments are my own and have not yet been discussed 
with Olivier or At-Large.
At the end of the call yesterday, it seemed that the issue is 
transfer of the domain name after a successful URS has become a 
critical go/no-go issue.
I was not a strong supporter of this to start, and in fact accepted 
the argument that just because one slime-ball misused a TM which also 
has alternate meanings, does not mean the next registrant will, and 
we should not take names out of the name pool forever due to one problem.
Based on what I have heard to date, I have changed my mind.

The argument that the next registrant may use the generic word or TM 
in a more benign way is true, but the chances are that eventually 
that name will go back into the pool again (via a delete or an 
auction) and the NEXT user may not be as conscientious.
I support the ability of a successful URS claimant to adopt the name 
(at their choice) but only after some reasonable amount of time has 
passed. Perhaps 90-180 days.
We have already generally acknowledged that there is a need for a 
claimant to be able to extend a registration if necessary so that it 
does not expire during the URS process (although it is not clear how 
easy this will be to implement).
I would suggest that a successful claimant can take over the name at 
the end of the registration period (it is locked until then), but in 
no case less than 90 days.
Since a locked-after-successful-URS domain will be explicitly flagged 
as such (since it will point to the URS provider's special alert 
page), it should be possible to implement this.
Alan