IP community shakes its head as the URS piles on the pounds

The proposed Uniform Rapid Suspension system is becoming heavier by the day - and simultaneously losing potency. This reality is gradually trickling through the IP community as active members read through the fourth version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook, the manual for applying for a new generic top-level domain. It appears that the URS, one of the oldest proposals to protect trademark rights in the new space, has become heavily burdened in the course of the various ICANN processes.