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Does any part of my anecdote (below) hold water, then? We were able to prove trademark ownership, active protection, and commercial use which leads me to belie

Does any part of my anecdote (below) hold water, then? We were able to prove trademark ownership, active protection, and commercial use which leads me to believe it was enough for ICANN and (an assumption on my part) Network Solutions to proceed with releasing it.

larrys 13y ago
Noting that I said "There are other things they might do" So without knowing the specific domain it would be important to know whether the domain was actually deleted (at which point it becomes a free for all in the drop) or something else happened to it (like an inside job at the registrar). By the way Network Solutions was famous for this happening. I don't know if it happens anymore (there) or when it stopped happening (there) but many people got hold of domains by having an inside employee at NSI work with them. If you gave me the domain name I could check a few things and possibly either rule in or rule out the possibilities. But once again ICANN would only forward the report to the registrar and they decide how it will be handled etc. The trademark stuff means nothing in the scheme of this! Proving a trademark and gaining ownership is a completely different process. If you were to call us and try to get a domain that way it wouldn't (and shouldn't) work. Related things happen quite frequently. Specifically some web guy registers a domain name for a client and then the client tries to get hold of the domain. We don't (and can't) get in the middle of those things. I suspect other registrar operate in a close fashion.