Famous Four alleges couple between panelist and competition for .Sport -
Company says panelist that killed its .sport application had a conflict of interest.
Last fall Famous Four Media saw its plans to run a .sport top level domain dashed after a panelist found in favor of rival applicant SportAccord in a community objection.
Famous Four appealed the decision to ICANN through a reconsideration request and lost.
Now the company is claiming (pdf) it has found ties between the panelist that decided the case and SportAccord.
Panelist Guido ... read more ...
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TKO: There will be no .sports tip turn domain in a initial round -
Objection panel rules that the the sport community would face material detriment for a .sports domain name.
Well, at least this decision is consistent. Except it isn’t.
An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has upheld SportAccord’s community objection against Donuts’ application to run the .sports top level domain name.
While this decision (pdf) is consistent with another panelist’s decision in .sport, the rationale again conflicts with the decision ... read more ...