The URS proposal needs to be shot down…

The URS proposal (or if you’re a domainer – the “U R Screwed” proposal) needs to be shot down or internet businesses and the domaining industry are going to be turned on their heads by a countless number of trademark infringement claims… in the past, those claims – if deemed unsubstantiated after review – would have little effect on the existing domain owner/internet business.  With the URS proposal, these claims – which will cost less than $300 as opposed to the several thousand that currently exists – will result in an immediate halt to any business that is being conducted on the domain in question.  It may takes weeks, months, to resolve the claim and that time could easily kill an internet business.  I’m all for trademark owners protecting their rights but this new proposal takes far too much control away from existing domain owners and makes it far too easy for complaintents to submit claims that they know are without much or any merit at all…

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