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Re: [ICANN-EU] The real challenge for all of us as candidates



On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> On 2000-08-22 21:07:42 +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> 
> > Going to court in your own country is:
> 
> > 1. probably much more expensive;
> 
> Possible.

A fact where I live. A fact in the USA. How about where you are? 

> > 2. will not work if the present owner lives elsewhere;
> 
> Depends.

On what?

> > 3. does usually not bind the registrar, so the name will not be
> > transferred in many cases.
> 
> Binding the registrant will be sufficient.

Not if the court has no jurisdiction over the registrant. If a Brazilian
court had ruled that corinthians.com should have gone to the football
team, the owner would still have it.

> > This is for gTLD's. ccTLD's are another matter, see wdr.org.
> 
> So .org is a ccTLD, or what?

No, I put it in the wrong place, sorry. wdr.org is an example of 'local'
courts resolving a dispute. Owner and would-be-owner are in the same
jurisdiction. If the owner of wdr.org would have been finnish, I doubt
this would have worked out the same way. If he had been in Iraq it would
certainly not have worked.

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