The Registrar Accreditation Agreement implies a prohibition against
warehousing of domain names:
http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-12may99.htm
9. Registrar shall abide by any ICANN-adopted policy prohibiting or
restricting warehousing of or\ speculation in domain names by registrars.
>>I'm curious about something. Many of you have probably seen the
>>register.com commericals, where they have people touting the domains
>>they've registered (e.g., sisterearth.com, hydrowatts.com, thefabers.com).
>>Checking the whois database, of course, reveals all these domains are
>>actually owned by register.com.
>>
>>Particularly in the case of thefabers.com, what recourse would a family
>>with the last name of Faber have against this blatant squatting?
>>These domains that register.com are using are not tied to or
>>representative of any 'product or service', except that they are
>>domain names, and register.com sells domain names.
>>
>>Would someone have a case to take these domains away from register.com
>>under the UDRP? What are the implications should the arbiters decide
>>that register.com deserves to keep these names?
Mikki Barry wrote:
>
>Of course not. Register.com is a large company. Therefore, they
>will win under the UDRP. Don't you yet understand how this works?
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