Re: AW: [ICANN-EU] Internetnews - Was Madonna.com Decision Rigged?

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 11:24 19/10/2000 +0200, Christian Schultz Kommunalberatung wrote:
>All,
>
>I hope seriously that ICANN is not involved in this decision - but who else?
>If yet: who took part at this decision? According which rules?

Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, of course.

>Don´t we see that we are destroying much confidence with such decisions?

trimming the CCs.... for once, I find the decision reasonably uncontroversial.
from the reference:

>The WIPO panel's decision on Madonna.com noted that Parisi has been
>involved in other domain disputes in the past. He registered for example,
>wallstreetjournal.com and edgaronline.com. He's also the owner of the
>whitehouse.com pornography site.
>
>Parisi obtained madonna.com for $20,000 from a domain broker and
>operated it as a porn site until 1999.

from the decision (linked from the reference):

>Complainant is the well-known entertainer Madonna. She is the owner of 
>U.S. Trademark Registrations for the mark MADONNA for
>entertainment services and related goods (Reg. No. 1,473,554 and 
>1,463,601). She has used her name and mark MADONNA
>professionally for entertainment services since 1979.

and:

>The only plausible explanation for Respondent’s actions
>appears to be an intentional effort to trade upon the fame of 
>Complainant’s name and mark for commercial gain.

There are reasons to complain about UDRP decisions.
I don't think this is one of them.
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