If ever a fee was ever needed! (3.Viewing)

The panel states seven reasons that this was also an attempt at reverse domain name hijacking. Some of the reasons included:

• The attempt to buy the domain before filing the dispute (i.e., Plan B reverse domain hijacking).
• The Complainant provided selective correspondence to the Panel and did not disclose its pre-filing attempt to buy the disputed domain name from the Respondent or its correspondence with the Respondent’s payment service provider.
• The Complainant appears to be undertaking a campaign to harass and pressure the Respondent to sell the disputed domain name to the Complainant. Applying pressure against the Respondent’s payment service provider to stop processing payments to the Respondent is an example of this.
• The Respondent has been operating its business appropriately and legitimately since 2018. The Complainant provided no reason for its over seven-year delay in bringing this claim.

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I will say it again and again...

In a lot of cases the Respondent is the clear owner and a dispute should never have been filed.

1. There should be a 5k application fee to file a dispute

2. In cases like this the fee should go to the respondent

3. If a domain is super popular one could deal with multiple disputes


In my case the 5k fee coming back would still only have covered a portion of my costs. Instead I had to absorb a massive claim because someone else thought they could lay claim against a legitimate domain.

If someone is so sure the domain belongs to them, let them pay a 5-10k application fee. If the claim is approved they get the fee back and the legitimacy is confirmed. These frivolous disputes are clogging up the system and costing legitimate owners millions of dollars in fees.

The system is so broken, with a big catalog it is almost inevitable that one has to defend numerous disputes and the cost of those can significantly eat into a domainers profitability. It is truly time to resolve this and make anyone thinking of filing a claim know that the costs are significant if it is deemed a frivolous claim.