Opposition To URS - Uniform Rapid Suspension

[Kevin <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sirs,

This e-mail is sent to express my adament opposition to the Uniform 
Rapid Suspension proposal.
The URS will create a grossly unfair and significantly unbalanced shift 
in the policies governing protection of the primary core asset and 
investment every individual, organization, small business and 
corporation worldwide, big or small, has in the Internet, that being 
their domain name.  Not only does it dramatically and negatively 
threaten the rights and legal protection of domain name owners, but as 
importantly for over 1 Billion Internet users who aren't domain owners, 
but who use web sites for products and services they enjoy and depend on 
each day.
For example imagine a retirement financial services company, with 
hundreds of thousands of elderly customers, having a domain such as 
AppleFinancialServices.com. Under the URS Apple Computer could 
theoretically get that site shut down quite easily and overnight impact 
the financial assets and retirement security of hundreds of thousands of
people.

At the same time, there is without a doubt, the need to protect the 
intellectual property rights of individuals, organizations and 
corporations worldwide also, but it should not be done in the haphazard 
and unjust way the URS policies provide.  This would create immense 
legal hardships especially for small domain owners who do not have nor 
can afford expensive legal counsel and represenetation to defend their 
rights. Trademarks, copyrights, intellectualy property must all be 
respected but in a way that does not facilitate the ability for legal 
abuses and deprivation of rights and asset protection against Internet 
domain name and web site owners.
The Internet has become the most globally connecting, important and 
crucial communications platform in the history of mankind. It must at 
all times be governed with the utmost of respect for protections for all 
of us who are building it, innovating it's growth, creating content for 
it, investing billions of capital into it, with well thought out 
planning, fairness, equal rights and a balanced playing field for 
everyone.
Regards,

Kevin R. Leto
CEO
Internet Advertising, LLC