India might ban .in domain investing (1.Viewing)

There's a history of fights over .IN domains with domain investors.

I'll summarize this from memory, so not everything might be 100% accurate, but I remember some domain investors snagging up some great one word generic English .IN domains when second level registrations opened up to the public.

As the story goes, a company, that was based in India laid claims to some of these domains. As I recall, the kicker of the story was that the company claimed they had been using the domains and their proof were parked pages that were under a wildcarded subdomain of another domain.

They won the domains initially and then tied up the domain investors in court for years, when they tried to gain control over their names again. I don't quite recall how things ended at the moment.
 
FM said:
There's a history of fights over .IN domains with domain investors.

I'll summarize this from memory, so not everything might be 100% accurate, but I remember some domain investors snagging up some great one word generic English .IN domains when second level registrations opened up to the public.

As the story goes, a company, that was based in India laid claims to some of these domains. As I recall, the kicker of the story was that the company claimed they had been using the domains and their proof were parked pages that were under a wildcarded subdomain of another domain.

They won the domains initially and then tied up the domain investors in court for years, when they tried to gain control over their names again. I don't quite recall how things ended at the moment.
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Yeah, I remember something like that too, where some one or some company was winning a bunch of absurdly bad cases that no legit dispute process would ever allow - indicating that there was some serious blatant corruption or payoffs going on. Business as usual for India.
 
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rlm said:
Yeah, I remember something like that too, where some one or some company was winning a bunch of absurdly bad cases that no legit dispute process would ever allow - indicating that there was some serious blatant corruption or payoffs going on. Business as usual for India.
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The worst part was that the company trying to get those domains had obvious ties to the domain industry as well, IIRC.
 
rlm said:
... indicating that there was some serious blatant corruption or payoffs going on. Business as usual for India.
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Par for the course over there, and I remember reading about some of those and it was obvious payola at work as anyone smart enough to write their name could see through that BS.

This is the most depressing aspect of society these days - everyone seems to be for sale, when previously only some people were for sale. There are absolutely no ethics or values at the top-level of any government or organization, only the pursuit of money.
 
MapleDots said:
You would think India would have done something like what Canada did with CIRA. At least we can run for the board to seek change if needed!
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Sure, and then you can sit in that little chair and watch yourself get outvoted.
 
MapleDots said:
Aren't a lot of the new extensions unstable?
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.IN isn't a new extension, though.

At least there's an emergency plan for new gTLDs where an emergency operator takes over if a registry goes out of business and arbitrary changes like this one for .IN wouldn't really pass the registrar's review of changes I'd hope.
 
I just talked to the investor involved in several of these .IN cases, and in the end, he won most of the UDRPs and got to keep and sell a majority of the domains.
 
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