Hello, On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 3:13 PM, <policy@paulmcgrady.com> wrote:
Jeremy, the practical problem with your example is that the innocent online fruit salesman (of which I know of none except those lovely pears we all send to each other at Christmastime), is quite the rare breed. In the real world, applefruit.com is a Uniregistry provided domain name that is used for pay-per-click ads including those related to the mobile phone, software and computer industry. I've attached a screenshot but if the ICANN system strips it out, I would be happy to email it to you directly.
Fantastic example, and the WHOIS tells us that the owner of applefruit.com is Frank Schilling's company, Name Administration, a company with very deep pockets: http://whois.domaintools.com/applefruit.com So, why doesn't Apple sue them under the ACPA, and collect their $100K? Don't settle, make it public, send a message. That's what Verizon did (although they settled the iREIT one; they had other cases too), and that probably led to a lot of typo-squatted Verizon-related domains being deleted. Where are the lawyers who aren't afraid of going to court? Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/