[ICANN-EU] Re: WIPO "brands" first Reverse Domain Name Hijacker

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Michael and all,

  Good points and sound logic here!  Well done.  WIPO spins
and interesting web (Pardon the pun) doesn't it?

  This reminds me of a old movie, "The Flim-Flam Man".

Michael Sondow wrote:

> >From http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/d2000-0622.html:
>
> "The dissenting
> member of the panel on this issue, Tony Willoughby, while agreeing
> that some of the allegations made by the complainant were
> unnecessarily and unjustifiably extravagant..."
>
> In other words, disingenuous lies.
>
> "... nonetheless takes the view that in invoking the Policy the
> complainant genuinely (albeit
> in the panel's view erroneously) believed that the respondent's
> explanation was specious..."
>
> Amazing, isn't it, what the human animal is capable of convincing
> itself of, when it's in its interests?
>
> "... In the dissenting panelist's view, the
> complainant was actuated by a desire in good faith to protect its
> intellectual property rights..."
>
> That is, all desires to protect oneself are in good faith. Bad
> faith, therefore, does not exist. Reverse domain name hijackers are
> good fellas, just "in error".
>
> ROFLMAO
>
> Michael Sondow
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