In my opinion: Afilias no doubt will challenge facially defective registrations left
over if legit trademark owners don't claim them. That's the easy part and will make
for great PR. Those facially defective registrations are dead money and the domains
should be returned to the public pool and I expect most, if not all, will. It cleverly
appears, in a sense, to have extended the sunrise period protections for legit trademark
holders with the pretenders/squatters acting as place-holders for them. It's the
more inventive registrations involving allegedly make-believe trademarks in banana
republics that will be very tough to ferret out. Could Afilias and certain Registrars
have done more to prevent many of the facially defective applications from reaching
registration?....would seem so...however eventually those who submitted facially
defective applications on purpose are going to be the real losers. I'm not losing
any sleep over it.
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