Bill and all my friends, I remember the sex.com case very well if you recall. Indeed, NSOL seemed to be gold digging on that one! Bad move on their part, IMHO as well... ICANN's management is mostly populated by social engineers and IT wana-be's and always has been. None of them with the possible exception of Chuck Goomes can write code or for that matter read code with any actual understanding. As to ICANN reconsidering "Frontrunning"/"Domain name tasting" decision, maybe, but only if they are forced by court order to do so. Such may be as it should be given that they are being wagged by the NSOL dog after all! >:) However this will not satisfy Chris's complaint fully as to financial compensation and if other parties from Godaddy and the defunct RegistryFly damanged and yet to be compensated ex-registrants, the financial damages will be significant, if not huge. My guess is though that ICANN and NSOL are going to get their legal heads together and see what they can offer Chris in an out of court settlement. Chris is no fool though, he will want allot and not all in $$ either.... I think I will give him a call and make some suggestions! >:) Bill Silverstein wrote:
In the ICANN-NSOL relationship, it's who's the dog and who's the tail, if you catch my drift. Right now and for some time, it seems NSOL is the dog wagging the ICANN tail. That's backwards, IMHO. But you can bet NSOL is going to put up a hell of a fight. Yeah. When lots of money is at risk they will, they did this with the Sex.com case. While Moniker is letter e360's lawyer litigate against me, when they could have saved themselves lots of trouble by cooperating with me.
Given the Netsol/ICANN letters regarding Whois accuracy a few years back, it does not give one ANY confidence in the ICANN management.
What ICANN has to decide is whether it's going to fight with NSOL or seek to weasel out from underneath. My guess is that ICANN will fold and eventually plead for mercy from the court so that none of the Board members have to pay any penalties to registrants out of their personal pockets. I'm not sure if ICANN will be able to be held liable. What I hope is that the powers to be at ICAN will wake up and realize that doing the right thing as a rule is also the best for avoiding lawsuits (though one should do the right thing because it is the right thing).
Maybe ICANN's management will reconsider the issue of domain name frontrunning.
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