My thanks to so many people sending in names they question as possibly false. I'd
be grateful for any more.www.theinternetchallenge.com now lists over 400 of them
and I've got over 100 more to put on (it's hard to keep up)
Assuming the real number
grows to over double that (and beyond) that's an awful lot of $225 Afilias will have
to pay to WIPO for challenges... we can monitor which ones get challenged.
It would
be a whole lot simpler to implement the Domebase simple solution - face it!
I'm
worried about the download time for the list of names, so tomorrow I'll try to put
the names on separate pages per 100 or per major 'applicant'.
I'd like to try to
reach 1000 by next weekend. Meanwhile I will send details of the list to Afilias,
ICAAN, all registrars, press etc -and if you think you know anyone who'd find it
helpful to take a look, just let them know.
Another interesting thing... generics
from Turkey! What about all the other languages? It's unimaginable how many generic
names have actually been claimed (improperly) as Trademarks, but I'd honestly guess
the real number is nearer 10,000 than 1000.
Richy Henderson