Based upon what clause in the constitution? And if in recent legislation, what and where?
I do not recognize that authority.
They said: “Some panels have held that a respondent’s lack of response can be construed as an admission that the respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in a disputed domain name.”.
I guess you can’t ignore the ‘panel’ of an international institution. They are full of themselves.
United Nations Group Issues Report on Internet Addresses
By JERI CLAUSING Published: May 3, 1999
Speculating in the registration and resale of potentially valuable Internet addresses would effectively be outlawed under new rules proposed by the intellectual property body of the United Nations. The proposal would also give companies and people with claims to famous words or trademarks first claim to certain Internet addresses.
The recommendations, issued Friday evening to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, are the first attempt by any official body to draft an international set of rules to combat the much-maligned practice commonly referred to as cybersquatting. The report was requested by the Clinton Administration last year when it handed oversight of the Internet's addressing system to the corporation, an international nonprofit organization known as Icann.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E7DF173CF930A35756C0A96F958260
Article 6: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the Contrary notwithstanding.
And if in recent legislation, what and where?
The Trademark Law Treaty was ratified by the Senate on June 26, 1998, and signed by the president on October 30.
I do not recognize that authority.
Doesn't really matter, if your domain registrar recognizes it. You can sue over the trademark, if you think your lawyers can beat up their lawyers.