I agree with you that the majority of cases are 1 year registration periods, but not all.  But this a red herring from my original point that the parties that administer the curative RPMs should be treated (and compensated) equally.  The fact is, if the system were to build in cost recovery for the registrars and registries, it would result in more efficient processing, and more efficient administration of URS/UDRP.

I think your idea that the Registrars/Registries should absorb the costs because they accepted the abusive registration would have more merit if the registries/registrars were not agnostic about the content of the registration.  There isn't a filtering mechanism to determine the content of a registration, and I think putting the registrars/registries in that position would raise free speech issues.

Jonathan



On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 1:20 PM Paul Keating <paul@law.es> wrote:
Jonathan,

Thanks for the clarification.

when a party prevails in a URS case, the domain is locked for the life of the domain registration: "Immediately upon receipt of the Determination, the Registry Operator shall suspend the domain name, which shall remain suspended for the balance of the registration period and would not resolve to the original web site. "

This raises the issue of the disparity when a domain is only registered for a 1-yr period or longer.  I would presume most domains subject to a URS are short-term (1-yr registration).

In any case the registrar has received the registration fee it bargained for.  It was aware of the URS/UDRP enforcement mechanisms at the time of registration.  It could have imposed a fee or charged a higher price.  If it chose not to do so then such is life.  Either way i see no reason to now transfer the costs to someone else.  

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On 7 Sep 2018, at 17:30, Paul Tattersfield <gpmgroup@gmail.com> wrote:

when a party prevails in a URS case, the domain is locked for the life of the domain registration: "Immediately upon receipt of the Determination, the Registry Operator shall suspend the domain name, which shall remain suspended for the balance of the registration period and would not resolve to the original web site. "