Rob Monster

Will need to read this decision but it looks like Fondation Bettencourt Schueller won a UDRP for http://Bettencourt.org , where the registrant is listed as Dennis Bettencourt: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case=D2019-0850 …

We need to set up domain hijacking insurance and hit the hijackers with ACPA actions for damages. There are too many bad #UDRP decisions.

This has been talked about before. Only the people at greatest risk would pay for it, and most probably couldn’t afford to pay enough to keep it fully funded. The wealthiest can self fund legal fees.

Maybe the registrars can make ACPA insurance an addon feature for each domain registered. I'd pay $0.50 extra per domain name. Helping out less solvent domain owners helps reduce the no. of bad decisions from being used as precedents against everyone. @robmonster @Uniregistry

Some might simply be unwilling to pay $5k (give or take) to defend a domain name that is worth less than that amount to them. Would the insurance cover a generic name worth a few hundred? Lots of considerations there.

You would theoretically need 120,000 domain names in that program paying $.50/each just to cover that bill. Now imagine if there are 10 a year. That’s a lot of domain names, and I don’t think investors would be willing to pay $.50/name.