Tag Archives: CADNA

Mon 11th November 2013
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Fairwinds: Time For UDRP Reform To Change Bad Faith Requirement From Registration Date To Renewals - Fairwinds Partners, which also heads up the Collation Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) has weighted in on the recent UDRP decision on Big5.com and whether the bad faith for a domain holder should be judged from only at the time the domain was first registered or acquired or each time the domain name was renewed on its blog today. Domain investor Nat Cohen wrote an excellent analysis of the issue on  domainarts.com, last week and I highly recommend that all domain holders take the time not only ... read more ...
Tue 15th October 2013
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CADNA Calls On Congress To Increase Cybersquatting Penalties Under The ACPA & Include Registrars/Registries - The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) posted a story on its site, written by Warren Communications News, Inc.,  which quotes Josh Bourne Director of CADNA: “The problem of cybersquatting is going to “explode by at least 2,500 percent when new gTLDs go live” “CADNA will start a letter-writing campaign and continue to seek a sponsor for a revision to 1999′s Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA).” “CADNA’s proposed revamp would establish stronger deterrence for ... read more ...
Sat 21st September 2013
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CADNA: Costs Of Defensive New gTLD Registrations To Be Double The Total Cost Of All .Com Registrations - As pointed out by the Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) has launched another offensive at the new gTLD program teaming up with the Council of Better Business Bureaus (BBB) to launch a month-long “‘Know Your Net’ gTLD public awareness campaign” “Their goal is to enact amendments to the U.S. Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) that would expand the law’s coverage beyond domain registrants by creating secondary ... read more ...
Thu 11th April 2013
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CADNA Wants ACPA Amended To Increase Penalties & Cover PPC Providers & Parking Companies - The Collation Against Domain Abuse (CADNA) issued a paper last night calling for lawmaker to increase the penalties for Cybersquatters and to expand the parties that are held responsible for cybersquatting,  not only the domain holder,  but basically everyone  in the monetization food chain,  which would including parking and PPC companies presumable the upstream providers  including Google by amending the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). “With much of the nation’s, and ... read more ...
Wed 26th September 2012
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CADNA Reports: 27% of U.S. Congressional Members’ Domain Names Used in Identity Squatting: What A Bunch Of Crap - The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) published a report today concluding that 27%  of congressional members’ domain names are used in identity squatting. I don’t know what the difference is between cybersquatting and identity squatting other than trying to label the same conduct in a new fashion which makes it sound worse. As In, Oh last year we had cybersquatting and now look we have identity squatting. Anyway first to the report: “Overall, CADNA found that members of Congress ... read more ...
Mon 10th September 2012
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Fairwinds Partners Leader of CADNA Hires CEO - FairWinds Partners which leads the Collation Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) announced today that it has hired Nao Matsukata, as CEO. Mr. Matsukata has “most recently served as the managing director for Six Trees Partners, working on global trade and regulatory issues in Asia and Europe for public and private sector clients”. “Starting in 1995, Matsukata served as a senior policy adviser to Sen. Joe Lieberman, and continued through the 2000 presidential campaign. He also once served as U.S. ... read more ...
Tue 3rd January 2012
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CADNA Publishes Its Wish List For The New gTLD Program & Its A Long One - The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), issued a press release today of its “recommendations” for ICANN, the US Congress and the NTIA for the new gTLD program,  and its a pretty long wish list. Here it is in full: “”””For ICANN: The ICANN Board should determine and announce when the next round of new gTLD applications will occur. A major source of anxiety that businesses feel around the New gTLD Program stems from fear that if they do not acquire their own new gTLD in this first ... read more ...
Wed 14th December 2011
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From House Hearing: CADNA “There Are Probably Tens of Millions of Cybersquatting Domains” in .Com - At The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s hearing on new gTLDs Josh Bourne President of CADNA’s testified: “”The U.S Congress should take much-needed action to improve the language of the Anti- Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), so that it provides proper deterrents against cybersquatting.”” “”Cybersquatting to the left of the dot is already a massive problem; with approximately 200 million domain name registrations concentrated mainly in .COM there already exist millions ... read more ...
Wed 2nd November 2011
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CADNA Goes From Opposing New gTLD Program To Demanding A Time Frame For Opening The 2nd Round - The Collation Against Domain Abuse (CADNA) has appearently gone from being a vocal opponent of the new gTLD program to demanding a timeline for opening of the second round. In a press release it sent out today,  Josh Bourne President of CADNA in his closing remarks at the “What’s at Stake: The Reality of ICANN’s New gTLD Program for Brands” conference at the Institute of International Education’s Edgar J. Kaufman Conference Center in New York City said: “ICANN has an image problem,” “Businesses ... read more ...
Thu 24th March 2011
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CNBC’s “Squawk On The Street” Covers New gTLD’s & .XXX Staring The Heads Of Central Nic & CADNA: “Has The Internet Out Grown .Com?” - CNBC Had a 5 minutes + segment on Squawk On The Street” on the new gTLD program and .XXX on Tuesday entitled “Has the Internet outgrown .Com” “The segment discussed whether adding more domains for websites will have big implications for both consumers and companies.” Ben Crawford of Central Nic and Dot Brand Solutions and Josh Bourne, the head of the The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA). “Josh I had no idea domain names were being abused.” said the host of the show Josh ... read more ...
Sun 20th March 2011
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CNN Allows CADNA Representative To Spew Inaccuracies on new gTLD’s - CNN.com published a story by Nao Matsukata a senior policy adviser to the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) and to Alston Bird, LLP. “In a dramatic change of internet policy, ICANN has proposed to approve and implement the roll out of more than 400 new top-level domains within the next few months. Top-level domains are what you see to the right of the dot, such as “com” or “org.””” OK other than his use of the term, RIGHT OF THE DOT (I like that) this is not a dramatic ... read more ...
Tue 2nd November 2010
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Lego Joins CADNA - We wrote back in June warning people to lay off any Lego related domains as they had at that time a filed 69 UDRP’s and had not lost one. Kevin Murphy the other day at his blog noted that Lego was filing on average 1 UDRP every 3 days. Today comes the news that Lego has joined the Collation Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) along with a Lundbeck A/S a global pharmaceutical company. This is certainly a case where abusive registrations lead to another large corporation joining CADNA, adding to their ... read more ...
Wed 15th September 2010
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NYtimes.com Covers Political “Cybersquatting” Report by a Collation Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) - The NYTimes.com just published a post this morning entitled “Clicking Candidate.com, landing at Opponent.com” citing a new survey by the Collation Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA). The post talks about the numerous political candidates and members of Congress and holders of other political offices that don’t own the domain name of their own name. According to the article again citing CADNA’s survey says that less than 1/2 of the 100 members of the Senate,  and only 40% percent of members ... read more ...
Wed 23rd June 2010
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Fairwinds Says Typosquatting Costs $327 million, Based on $2.74 Per Click - Report makes some lofty estimates for typosquatting. Fairwinds Partners, the group behind Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, released a study today suggesting that typosquatting costs the 250 most visited web sites $327 million per year. Like the creators of many studies, Fairwinds has something to sell — services to the very brands that are affected by typosquatting. There are a number of assumptions in Fairwinds’ report, and also a lot of references to its ... read more ...
Tue 26th January 2010
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CADNA Is Bringing The Utah Cybersquatting Bill To Washington On Friday To Criminalize Domaning - The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) is holding an event in Washington DC Friday to bring the proposed Utah trademark law that we wrote about a month ago to a federal level, or Snow Bill 2. If you look at the inviation and agenda of this meeting you will see that CADNA is going to be pushing hard to get the Utah bill enacted as a precursor to ACPA amendments that define cybersquatting in a way that encompasses many domainer activities, substantially increase civil money penalties, and ... read more ...
Fri 6th November 2009
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IP Constituency Distances Itself from CADNA - Letter insinuates that CADNA does not take a balanced approach to intellectual property rights. The ICANN IP Constituency is distancing itself from the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA). In a letter to ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom, J. Scott Evans, President of the Intellectual Property Constituency, referred to a recent discussion in which CADNA was referred to as being a member of the constituency. During our presentation, Mike Silba made a reference to the ... read more ...
Thu 17th September 2009
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Hypocrisy.com: How America’s Big Companies are a Biggest Cybersquatters - A look at how big companies have joined forces to cybersquat and how they justify it. In May 2007, I noticed something curious on a new Gateway desktop computer I purchased. When I mistyped a web address, my browser showed a page full of ads. That’s nothing new. But who profited from the page was. It wasn’t some small fry cybersquatter. It was Gateway. I later found out that Dell did the same thing. Both computer manufacturers had teamed up with search ... read more ...
Wed 5th August 2009
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Domain Name Companies Spend $2M Lobbying Washington - Analysis shows over $2M spent in first half of year on lobbying. Domain name related companies continue to spend millions of dollars lobbying representatives in Washington, a study by Domain Name Wire shows. The analysis used public records filed with the U.S. Senate to calculate lobbying expenses by domain name companies and other companies regarding domain name issues. By far the biggest spender is VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), which spent $1.4M in the first half of ... read more ...
Tue 27th January 2009
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ICA Still Strong, But Challenges Remain - What Michael Collins’ departure means for Internet Commerce Association. When Michael Collins resigned as Executive Director of Internet Commerce Association last week, I re-read his resignation letter a few times. What did it say about ICA? What is the future of the organization? It’s clear that Collins didn’t leave solely to focus on a new venture. There were financial considerations at ICA. Collins wrote, “The entire world is going through economic ... read more ...
Mon 29th December 2008
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2008 Domain Dunce Awards: Verizon - Verizon likes to play both sides of the fence. For that we give it an award. With just a few days left in 2008, I thought I’d write about a couple of the more egregious stories in domain names this year. Think of it as the dumbest moments in domains. The first winner is telecom giant Verizon (NYSE: VZ). Verizon, a member of Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), aggressively pursues cybersquatters that infringe on its trademarks. There’s nothing wrong ... read more ...
Thu 18th December 2008
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CADNA Membership Increased 80% in 2008 - The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) announced today that Goldman, Sachs Co. and New York Life Insurance Company are its newest members. CADNA also announced that their membership increased 80% in 2008. “”””This is clear evidence that more businesses recognize the need to speak out about domain name abuse, including cybersquatting, phishing, and domain name tasting. With the support of its member companies, CADNA is eager to address domain name abuses in 2009.””” “”””A ... read more ...
Fri 31st October 2008
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Forbes Covers New Top Level Domain Names - Forbes Magazine covers new TLD launch, but has a few inaccuracies. The maintstream media has paid cursory attention to ICANN’s opening of the top level domain name landscape. A new article in the November 17 issue of Forbes (available now online) covers the topic. A couple observations: First, the article has many inaccuracies. Second, there’s common ground between domainers and Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse. Inaccuracies I find many of the statements ... read more ...
Thu 18th September 2008
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Nike and Wells Fargo Join CADNA - Companies join associations representing trademark interests. Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, an organization of mostly Fortune 500 companies, announced today that it has two new members and is concerned about changes at ICANN. Nike (NYSE: NKE) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) have joined the organization. These companies are no strangers to the domain and trademark world. Both companies have filed dozens of UDRPs dating back to 2000. Nike’s most recent victory ... read more ...
Mon 30th June 2008
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ICANN Fee Rule Change Won’t End Domain Tasting, Frontrunning - ICANN’s recent rule change will have mixed results. ICANN recently moved a step further to changing how it handles refunds for domain names in conjunction with the registry. Currently, ICANN charges a 20 cent fee per domain name registered. However, this fee is refundable along with the entire price of the domain registration if the domain is “returned” to the registry within 5 days. With the new rules, the 20 cent fee won’t be refundable after a registrar ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2008
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Verizon Sued Over Error Redirects - Communications company will have to defend its DNS wildcarding practices. It looked like a slam dunk case for Verizon (NYSE: VZ) when it sued Navigation Catalyst Systems, Inc. for trademark infringement. Navigation Catalyst owns a number of domains similar to Verizon’s marks. But Navigation Catalyst found this to be a perfect opportunity to point out that Verizon is a hypocrite. It filed counterclaims citing Verizon’s error redirect system that monetizes typos ... read more ...