A team set up by ICANN to recommend proposals has filed its final report on trademark protection in the implementation of new generic top-level domains. Among its recommendations, a system that immediately takes down URLs has drawn a great deal of criticism.
Called the Uniform Rapid Suspension system, it would operate in addition to ICANN’s existing Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy as a “rapid takedown” system that allows trademark holders to avoid the time delay and costs of the former policy. According to the report, “The URS is not intended for use in any questionable proceedings, but only clear cases of trademark abuse.”
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