[excerpt] "The main problem for companies seeking to protect their brands is cybersquatting, the unauthorized use of a trademarked name in a domain pointing to a site that isn't owned by the trademark holder. MarkMonitor found more than 286,000 instances of cybersquatting for the 25 brands it studied -- an average of 11,400 instances each." Complete article here: http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/New-Study-Looks-at-Web-Brandjacking/story... The UDRP is obviously of limited value given the current reality... it's time that we started looking at either a revision of the UDRP or at an alternative. I am aware that both the Business Constituency and the Intellectual Property Constituency have recently been considering rapid take-down plans (in fact, the .xxx proposal also planned on utilizing rapid take-down (based on the DMCA model)). What approach to this issue does the At-Large community recommend? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com