»Unter diesen Umständen [hohe Preise für die Domain + zusätzliche Kosten für die Kontrolle der Inhalte] dürfte es nicht verwundern, dass sich bis heute erst 21 Informationsanbieter bereit gefunden haben, eine Site unter .kids.us zu betreiben.«
8.3 Preventive IP Protection Mechanisms
118. The experience gained thus far suggests that preventive IP protection mechanisms should satisfy (at least) the following requirements:
(i) Protection mechanisms should be effective in order to prevent new gTLDs from turning into cybersquatting havens, which would not only damage the interests of IP owners, but also the reputation and credibility of the gTLDs in question;
(ii) Protection mechanisms should be designed in a way that minimizes the potential for abuse. The more a mechanism is open to abuse, the less credibility and legitimacy it will have, and the less it can serve its purpose;
(iii) Protection should be balanced and take account of rights and interests of third parties wherever this is reasonably feasible;
(iv) The protection mechanism should be practicable and not overly complex, and should not cause undue delays in the introduction or functioning of the gTLD as a whole.
119. So far, the following preventive protection models can be identified:
(i) Watch services, possibly combined with preferential options to initiate a dispute resolution procedure against abusive registrations;
(ii) Defensive registrations, possibly combined with a preferential registration period;
(iii) Exclusion mechanisms, as suggested in the First WIPO Report;
(iv) Sunrise mechanisms that allow right holders to register domain names corresponding to their IP rights before the general public.
