Face it, cybersquatters are the biggest contributors to the domain industry.
ICANN knows it, Networsolutions.com knows it, every registrar knows it. It
is not the big corporations that make big contributions. Ok, Maybe some like
P&G that registered 1700 dot com domain names. To kill the cybersquatters means
to kill the domain business. This is true with the new TLDs. I would
guess that that is why afilias does not want to seal any possible loophole.
For instance, the Afilias dispute policy allows challenge to disputable domain names.
However, the challengers can not get any incentives. The challengers are required
to pay $250 for one dispute, yet no matter they win or lose, there is no way to guarantee
the winning challengers to get the domain names. That means you are not encouraged
to challenge any dispute domain names. In other words, the cybersquatters are
virtually encouraged to register with less liabillity. See the point? The cybersquatters
are those that make the domain names the cyber gold. It is those cybersquatters
as well that make the ordinary registrants miserable.
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