Nov. 29, 2007
5:03 p.m.
IS this suit more about trademarks or tasting?
It's a trademark suit, but among the allegations is that they used tasting and kiting (repeated 4.999 day registrations) to hide their identity. I'm kind of surprised that the suit didn't name ICANN as an additional defendant. I did a short talk on tasting and kiting at MAAWG last month, and just from the stats that ICANN publishes, I pointed out these registars for their glaringly abusive behavior, registering millions of domains and refunding all but a few thousand of them. There's no question that ICANN knows what they've been doing. R's, John