privelage.co.uk decision

[weycresto]

I do wonder why RBS bother. This is just trivial and nick picking in terms of the overall size of the market they are engaged in. Despite heavy brand promotion people generally search for the "thing" not the "brand."

For example "car insurance" is a mega search term, searched over 3M times on OV in June, compared to just under 7000 for privilege. If I was a bank selling insurance I'd want some of the former. Of course the mispellings are even lower, though not insignificant for a domainer, its piddling for a bank of RBS's size.

privilege.co.uk has an OV of 163, not bad, but no where near as good as say carinsurance.co.uk which has an OV of 665.

You would think an organisation the size of RBS would devote resources paying market prices for strategic good quality domains, rather than hiring expensive capucinno drinking lawyers to nit pick at domainer portfolio's. My ten cents anyway.

 

[weycresto]

It might be that a third party "ambulance chasing" law firm contacted RBS and advised them to go after those registrants and they did so without giving it too much more thought.

Doesn't seem to bode well for some other registrants then. Just about every mispelling has registered. I really wish a registrant would defend a DRS properly too. They would still no doubt loose, especially if parked at PPC farm targeted at car insurance but could just make the likes of RBS look ridiculous.

 

[revsorg]

I thought it was funny that section 7 of this one contains a typo:

I have been given anything the details held by Nominet about Mr. Morrison.

A typo in a DRS document about a typo domain...

 

[Whois-Search]

Another "Robert Morrison" DRS has appeared online now:

priveledge.co.uk

http://www.nic.uk/digitalAssets/8797_priveledge.pdf

RBS wins again 5-0.

 

[Whois-Search]

As RBS did seperate DRS cases (£750 + VAT a time)

This means Robert Morrision can't do a bulk DRS appeal on all 3 names.

He has to appeal each case individually are therefore spend £3000 + VAT per name ?

1. http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/8797_priveledge.pdf

2. http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/8337_privelage.pdf

3. http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/8338_rbsint_1.pdf (Appeal Pending)

 

[revsorg]

So it would make sense to appeal them one at a time.

 

[Whois-Search]

So it would make sense to appeal them one at a time.

Yeah but would cost you £9000 + VAT instad of £3000 + VAT

 

[Beasty]

It's an intersting point on general terms - if a Complainant does not mind paying the extra fees then they will make Appealing (assuming they win!) that much harder for the Registrant. Of course if they lose, they too would have to pay for multiple Appeals.

In this case though I can not really see on what basis he would base an Appeal - once RBS tidied up their list of Complainants. The Appeal is RBS's against the first decision on the choice of Complainant. If you wanted me to put a fiver on it, I'd say they will probably win - though properly speaking I don't think that they should. If they lose, I think they will just issue a new claim with the correct Complainants - and almost certainly win.

In any event, Robert Morrison has shown no interest in doing anything about either the initial DRS or an Appeal so far as I can tell. I'd guess he thinks he has better things to do with his cash - whether it be either 3 or 9 grand.

 

[melitaweb]

Robert has been in the domain industry a relatively short time... but he acquired lots of typo domains since about 2003 onwards. He then started acquiring more generic names, and late last year I believe sold his typo portfolio for something like $750,000. Any typos he has left he has probably all but forgotten about.

He recently bought malta.com I believe.

He can often be found in the domainstate chatroom if you want to learn from him

James

Hi,
Just came across this thread and others with my name in. That's about right James - I ignore all DRS and have done for a long time now as I don't feel they are balanced. I wasn't even aware of this decision until now but it's no surprise. The only one (or two) cases I think I won were without responding - once someone has paid for a DRS of course they are favoured. The whole DRS system is, and always has been, a joke.
Regards
Robert
PS The reason for dragging up this thread is due to a more recent thread in another section of this forum. Didn't notice the date on this particular one.

 

[domainking]

Hi Rob is one of the best guys in the game when comes to domains(typos)
I can tell you all he is tightfisted and one of the most ugly guys in the planet
check out his picture in dnfaces.

he is that ugly he had to move to malta
lol