URS Needs a Lot More Work

["24-7 Outdoors, Inc." <kellypitts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello ICANN,

      For a policy so fundamental the ease of flow of the mechanics of the 
naming system and businesses in general to be so unthoroughly debated and 
crafted, it is obvious this URS proposal is still total scratch work cobbled 
together for an incomplete, broken approach to solving domain conflict issues.  
 It is not even at the point of a rough draft because so many issues were not 
considered, or at least not given any weight in the ultimate product that ICANN 
has put forward.

The worst part is that It seems to me there is little accountablity in the URS 
to anyone other than trademark interests.   There is simply an absurd bias 
towards trademark interests.   How is the common person's domain(s) protected 
here I ask ?  Were are the provisions that fairly protect those persons?  How 
do individual domain owners benefit from the overreaching, zealous interests of 
million dollar corporations who decide they simply want a domain and don't want 
to pay for it.   There needs to be a system of checks and balances or all out 
war over domains will take place.  It will be ICANN's legacy that it created a 
crazy domain war with countless victims which could of easily been avoided by 
using a bit more thought, getting more input from appropriate parties, and 
actually listening to them and implementing the best ideas from each to create 
a balanced approach.  It appears there is absolutely no deterrent for anyone to 
NOT file a URS as it stands.  It will become a blood sport of sorts in the 
intellectual communtiy.  The lawyers will say, "Hey......want to steal a 
$500,000 domain for about $300?  At worst case, it's worth a shot!  You'll only 
lose $300.  Those are better odds than you will ever get gambling in Las 
Vegas!"   Can you honestly believe this won't happen in countless special 
trademark interest and trademark lawyer circles?  

It is also absurd that someone can so easily disrupt another's business for a 
cheap URS filing fee.  Can you imagine ICANN having the ICANN.org site taken 
down for a URS filing fee because someone, somewhere on this planet claims 
rights to the letters ICANN as their trademark?  Don't you think you should 
have some retaliatory or dispute rights before having your DNS changed?  
Seriously.......who thought of this?  Trademark interests?  The Business 
Constituency?  Can it be said this is a fair, balanced approach for all parties 
involved in a domain dispute?  Again, abusurd and biased beyond control.

For further review of how I feel and what I think about the URS, please refer 
to the lawyer, George Kirikos'  ICANN response for a much more detailed, 
intelligent analysis of the various problems and instablilty this will create 
for the domain owners and even the Internet itself.   This reflects my views 
and concerns regarding the URS proposal quite thoroughly.

Thank you,

Kelly Pitts