Intellectual Property Constituency comments

[James Renken <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To whom it may concern:

I am an attorney in the practice of Internet law, and am also the owner 
of Sandwich.Net, LLC, which is a Web hosting and consulting company in 
operation since 1997 and a reseller (through Tucows) of domain name 
registration services. On behalf of myself and my legal and business 
clients, I am writing in opposition to the Intellectual Property 
Constituency's potential comment in favor of Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS).
URS would indeed be a relatively convenient, inexpensive and rapid 
method of responding to cybersquatting. However, it would also be too 
effective as a method of victimizing the far too many legitimate domain 
name owners who lack the means to respond to legal challenges quickly 
and forcefully.
As numerous examples have demonstrated, arbitration - especially with a 
single arbitrator - too often fails to provide due process to the less 
powerful party. I believe that allowing URS as proposed would be a grave 
disservice to domain name owners, and therefore urge you to disregard 
IPC's comments if made.
Very truly yours,

James Philip Renken
41 Schermerhorn St., PMB 335
Brooklyn, NY 11201-4802
USA