Lawyer asks: how the hell did Demand Media pass the new gTLD cybersquatting test? | DomainIncite - Domain Name Industry News, Analysis

Did ICANN ever respond on the record to Jeffrey Stoler's attempted nuking of Rightside and Donuts gTLD bids?

This alarm arises from the overwhelming evidence, as referenced below, that: (a) Donuts is a “front” for Demand Media, Inc. (“Demand Media”), and (b) Demand Media’s status as precisely the kind of proven cybersquatter that ICANN’s rules were designed to weed-out of the gTLD application process. How ICANN’s background screening panel could — in the teeth of that evidence — approve the continued participation of Donuts in the new gTLD program (the “Donuts Decision”) requires justification. This letter formally requests that ICANN, pursuant to its obligations of accountability and transparency, provide an explanation of how, and on what basis, the Donuts Decision was made.

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