WIPO attacks domainers

WIPO, the entity that handles domain disputes, posted a press release that seems to imply that most domainers are “cybersquatters”.

Daily Domainer and Frank Schilling have some great comments about WIPO:

in its Proposed Program and Budget For 2006/07 WIPO congratulates itself that its own awareness-raising activities (!) are at least partially responsible for the increase in UDRP cases:

This press release must be another part of these awareness-raising activities. WIPO has to paint an alarming picture to attract attention. If they had said, complaint levels not even back at their 2000 levels people would have ignored the issue. Now reporters are all over it and they have no idea about the real problems.

WIPO does talk about valid problems, e.g. large-scale traffic tasting but they can be solved quickly and easily (and quietly). No need to launch an all-out attack on domainers just to gain more attention. Why don’t they talk about Google and Yahoo who profit from most parked domains, and Verisign who profits from domain tasting? It’s easy to bash the usual suspects but apparently it takes guts to even mention the big boys.