Current TLD Dispute procedure must be sorted out first

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Username: duffyking

Date/Time: Sat, July 8, 2000 at 9:28 PM GMT

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Subject: Current TLD Dispute procedure must be sorted out first

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As all members of the ICANN Board of Directors now know and all have been informed personally on at least two occasions, the current TLD Dispute procedure is being breached by WIPO and nothing has been done about it. Neither has any member of the Board of Directors done anything about it. Should the board now consider sorting out the rules which govern the Dispute procedure for the Current TLDs before accepting more.
As A small company who have wasted an inordinate amount of Time, resources and money going up to $30,000 to defend their domain name which was being hijacked by a larger company, I would not like to have to do the same for other TLDs. I urge the ICANN Board of Directors to take seriously the job that the Department of Commerce has bestowed on them and sort out the current TLDs before introducing any others.
By going down this path, then further TLDs that are added down the road will have a water-tight set of rules laid down at the beginning.