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by Dagger2 7 days ago
The most amazing part about this is that Microsoft used a public domain for it and then lost the domain registration.
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And don't even care to make a serious effort to get it back. I suspect if they tried using the UDRP with a claim "we lost it by accident, cybersecurity risk, current owner is just squatting on it without actively using it" – they'd have quite decent odds of success, given the attitudes of the average UDRP arbitrator. The current holder would of course argue "you lost it more than a decade ago, you should be estopped by the passage of time" – but again, the average UDRP arbitrator would likely weigh the "cybersecurity risk" argument higher.