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Weekend News Roundup Led by Revelations Embarrassing to Domain Arbitration Complainants and Panelists

Before heading into the weekend I wanted to bring you up to date on a number of interesting developments in the domain industry. First kudos to Andrew Allemann and George Kirikos who have uncovered some remarkably embarrassing shenanigans involving both complainants in UDRP proceedings and National Arbitration Forum (NAF) panelists who are charged with rendering 

New revelations cast doubt on 
how well justice is being served in
some UDRP domain proceedings.

fair decisions in those UDRP disputes. It started with an item Andrew posted at Domain Name Wire yesterday blowing the whistle on Citizen Hawk for cutting and pasting erroneous and irrelevant information (apparently from an unrelated case) into a UDRP complaint they filed in an effort to take LetzTalk.com away from the rightful owner. Panelist David Sorkin spotted the bogus material and shot down the complaint.

Following up on the item at DNW, Kirikos studied some other recent cases and discovered that some UDRP panelists at NAF have been churning out boilerplate cut/paste decisions of their own, with the the inserted material having nothing to do with the case at hand. George just posted a very revealing article on this 

deplorable situation at Circle ID. Kirikos rightly called on ICANN to investigate writing, "I call upon ICANN to seek an explanation from NAF, who has a very interesting history (each of those three words links to different examples) Indeed, a case might be made that they should be decertified as a provider." Now that this stone has been overturned by George and Andrew expect to hear a lot more in upcoming weeks about the muck they found underneath it.

Speaking of Domain Name Wire, in association with SnapNames they currently have an online domain auction running that features names submitted by a number of domain bloggers. The auction will end on Tuesday (April 27) at 3:15pm (U.S. Eastern time), so check out the catalog now to see if anything catches your eye.

Elsewhere, Jason Cupp and Patrick Ruddell (Chef Patrick) have just re-launched GoDrops.com, a site that provides a filtered list highlighting the the top domains on each's day drops list. The site has a free service covering .com and .net domains as as well as a new $19.97 a month premium service that covers more extensions and provides more statistical information on each domain. 

Another popular site that has just been revamped is Catchy.com (formerly Mocus.com). The site, operated by Domaining.com owner Francois Carrillo, features short brand able domain names for sale. The redesigned site has added ccTLDs to its inventory list and unveiled a more generous affiliate program.

The domain industry is in for a busy week ahead. On Monday (April 26), the .CO registry begins its Global Sunrise period that will run through June 10. This phase allows qualified trademark holders to claim matching names. Land Rush will be held June 21-July 13, with general availability of .CO domains beginning July 20.

A pair of major domain conferences will also be held next week. The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Milan, Italy opens Tuesday (April 27) and runs through Thursday. The GeoDomain Expo in New Orleans gets underway Wednesday (April 28) and will continue through Friday. GeoDomain Expo organizers posted some significant additional agenda details today and told me the schedule is now virtually complete. I'll be in New Orleans to speak and cover the show for you.  I had committed to be there before the conflicting T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Milan dates were announced and will certainly miss being with the many European domainers gathering in Milan for what should be a great show as well. We'll try to have some photos and details from that event sent to us during the week so we can show you what is going on on the other side of the pond as well as in New Orleans. 

(Posted April 23, 2010) 


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