Tag Archives: cybersquatting

Fri 15th June 2012
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Guy files cybersquatting censure opposite a page on Blogger - Apparently blogger.com followed by a bunch of numbers infringes this guy’s trademarks. From the WTF category… Nevada resident Steven Barket has filed a federal lawsuit against Google and a John Doe, claiming violations of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and Lanham Act. The offending domain name that violates Barket’s trademarks? blogger.com/profile/10034500688963114971 Yes, that’s a single page on the Blogger.com domain. Barket demands a judgement ... read more ...
Thu 24th May 2012
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Jeweler sues Oversee.net for cybersquatting - Jeweler files claim over six domain registrations. Jewelry company Tacori Enterprises has sued Oversee.net in U.S. District Court for cybersquatting. Tacori alleges (pdf) that Oversee.net is cybersquatting with at least six domain names: Taccori.com Tacorri.com Tacoriiv.com TacoriRings.com Tacoti.com Tracori.com Tacori alleges that Oversee.net “is a serial cybersquatter who registers, uses, and traffics in domain names that are confusingly similar to famous or distinctive ... read more ...
Thu 28th July 2011
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Facebook Files Massive Cybersquatting Lawsuit - Lawsuit goes after typosquatters who redirect to survey offers. As reported on Elliot’s Blog today, Facebook has filed a lawsuit against dozens of people for allegedly typosquatting on its domain names. One of the interesting aspects of this case is what the defendants are allegedly doing with the domain names. Instead of parking them with traditional pay-per-click providers, they are forwarding them to survey sites that mimic Facebook in some way. This type of ... read more ...
Wed 22nd June 2011
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Owner of .Com Domain Sues for .Co Domain Name - Real estate firm sues owner of .co. The owner of a .com domain name has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to get the .co version of their domain name. This is the first such .co federal anticybersquatting lawsuit I’m aware of (although there have been plenty of UDRPs and I don’t think a complainant has lost yet). Real estate company Sibcy Cline filed the in rem lawsuit against SibcyCline.co. The firm registered both SibcyCline.com and Sibcy.com way back in 1995. But someone ... read more ...
Thu 16th June 2011
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BMW Files Cybersquatting Lawsuit - Company files federal court case over BMWrewards.com BMW has filed a lawsuit against Illinois company Prime Market Targeting, Inc. and Scott Duff for trademark infringement, false designation of origin, cybersquatting, and unfair competition over the domain name BMWREwards.com. The automaker is asking for the domain name, attorneys fees, $100,000 per anti-cybersquatting rules, and for the defendants to refrain from infringing on the company’s mark in the future. This ... read more ...
Tue 31st May 2011
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Hospitality Company Claims Leisure.com Infringes Its Trademarks - Company wants to trade up to better domain name through lawsuit. Leisure Hotel Corporation has filed a lawsuit against the owner of Leisure.com claiming trademark infringement, counterfeiting, false designations of origin, and cybersquatting (pdf). Let me ask you a simple question: If you were the person who plunked down $150,000 to buy Leisure.com a couple years ago, what would you plan to do with it? The most obvious thing would be a site about travel. It’s ... read more ...
Mon 24th January 2011
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Judge Shuts Down Zuccarini Fight Against NameJet, NetSol, and VeriSign - Judge calls for an end to lengthy domain name battle. United States District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema has said enough is enough in a domain name lawsuit filed by John Zuccarini. Zuccarini filed the lawsuit after a court appointed receiver failed to renew domain names of his that were seized to settle a cybersquatting judgment. The domain names were at Network Solutions and subsequently auctioned off on NameJet when they expired. One of the domain names was bid up ... read more ...
Mon 25th October 2010
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Janna Bullock Plays Whack-a-Mole with Domain Names - NYC socialite struggles to control domain names. New York real estate developer and socialite Janna Bullock has filed another cybersquatting lawsuit to recover domain names she says are similar to her name. Bullock filed the case against BullockJanna.com and Bullock-Janna.com in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia. Her official web site is JannaBullock.com. According to the complaint (pdf), Bullock brought a similar action against several domain names ... read more ...
Fri 30th July 2010
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Who Didn’t Do Their Homework on .Co Launch? - Despite .co’s best efforts, cybersquatters pile on. Washington Business Journal published a story today about companies that didn’t register their .co domain name equivalent, and how cybersquatters snapped up a lot of these domain names. The story is somewhat amusing: Local businesses beaten to the punch by online speculators include sports teams, media companies and even tech-savvy federal contractors. “They didn’t do their homework,” said William ... read more ...
 
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Woman With World’s Smallest Waist Wins Cybersquatting Lawsuit - A domain name is a terrible thing to waist. Cathie Jung, who is in the Guinness Book of World Records as having “The Smallest Waist on a Living Person” at 15 inches, has won rights to the domain name CathieJung.com. Jung filed an Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act en rem (meaning it was against the domain name and not the registrant) case back in December 2009. Jung claimed that the domain name was registered by a corset designer. Indeed, it appears ... read more ...
Tue 13th July 2010
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Microsoft Gets Patent for “Cybersquatter Patrol” - Company granted patent for typosquatting and cybersquatting tools. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today granted Microsoft U.S. patent number 7,756,987 (pdf) for “Cybersquatter Patrol”. The patent is for a system of generating lists of typo and cybersquatted domains and peeling back the onion to determine their ownership and revenue source. It also refers to methods to block these cybersquatted domain names. An exemplary method includes providing a typographically ... read more ...
Mon 28th June 2010
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New Company Wants to Help Unmask Private Whois Records - A possible new entrant into the trademarked domain recovery industry. NameDepot.com, Inc. has filed a trademark application for “RealRegistrant”, with services described as: Application service provider, namely service, software, database, web interface, and technical support for users to obtain information about the owner or registrant of a domain name when the WHOIS information is obscured by a domain name WHOIS Privacy or Proxy service; domain name information ... read more ...
Thu 18th February 2010
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Yahoo Files Patent Application for Method to Prioritize Cybersquatting Battles - Method helps brand managers prioritize cybersquatting disputes. Yahoo has filed a patent application (pdf) for a method for prioritizing which cybersquatted domain names to pursue. The application describes a system that generates a list of domain names related to a trademark (“seed” term), then runs calculations based on probable traffic to those domain names to determine which ones a trademark owner should pursue. For example, if one of the domains generated ... read more ...
Mon 26th October 2009
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As Google Listen Launches, Domains Already Squatted - Squatters picked up Google Listen names many years ago. Google has launched a new music and audio servicecalled Google Listen, which was sometimes referred to as Google Audio as news about the launch leaked over the past couple days. Unfortunately for Google, relevant domain names have already been snatched up. GoogleListen.com was originally registered back in 2005. The owner let the domain expire in 2006, and then the new owner let the domain name expire earlier ... read more ...
Mon 19th October 2009
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Verizon Files Another Cybersquatting Lawsuit - Verizon files cybersquatting lawsuit for Verizon.com typos. Verizon is suing 2Cool Guys.LLC (sic), Warren Weitzman, Arnold Trebach, and several John Does for trademark infringement. In the lawsuit, Verizon alleges that the defendants registered domain names that infringe on Verizon’s trademarks and set up various companies to hide their activities. It alleges that the parties use Lead Networks Private Domains Limited as their registrar, which allegedly works with ... 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 ...
Thu 30th July 2009
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Wikipedia Says Domainers are Cybersquatters - Domain Name Wire has been mentioned in the discussion at Wikipedia on the proposed new Domaining page. Consequently, I am going to post here my comments to the Wikipedia staff. They have reduced my original submission to about 10 or 20% of the original content I provided them … which was a rather thorough resource page on domaining. My response to Wiki staff on this continuing issue … I would like to respond with a few comments. I do understand that the number of links I submitted ... read more ...
Wed 25th March 2009
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Weather Underground Sues Navigation Catalyst for Cybersquatting - Navigation Catalyst back in court. Navigation Catalyst Systems, Inc. finds itself in a familiar place: in court defending itself against cybersquatting claims. This time the plaintiff is The Weather Underground, Inc. Navigation Catalyst distributed a browser plugin for its New.net product that allowed it to capture typo information, which helped spur the company into alleged massive typosquatting registrations earlier this decade. The lawsuit does not mention this ... read more ...
Wed 18th February 2009
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Hells Angels Sue Alleged Cybersquatter for $2 Million - Clearly ignorant cybersquatter can now answer question “What’s the worst that can happen?” There are two types of cybersquatters: big, systematic cybersquatters and small, just-don’t-know-any-better cybersquatters. Sometimes it’s the big guys that get hit with lawsuits, but a recent case shows even the small time cybersquatter can be hit hard. That’s the case of Fawn and Terry Myers, who are named in a lawsuit alleging they registered about 20 domain ... read more ...
Tue 2nd September 2008
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New York Times Correctly Defines Cybersquatting - New York Times article offers up correct definition related to trademarks. It seems that the domain industry is quick to pounce on mainstream journalists who broadly define cybersquatting to include what many of us would refer to as domain investing — buying generic domain names. Perhaps we should pat a journalist on the back when he correctly defines “cybersquatting”, as New York Times writer Steve Lohr did in his August 31 article “A New Battle Is Beginning ... read more ...
Sat 9th February 2008
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Time Warner, Yahoo Team Up to Cybersquat - Companies join the ranks of big corporations redirecting “error” traffic. Time Warner’s Road Runner internet service has teamed up with Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) to typosquat on millions of unregistered domain names. The feature from the two companies is called “Web Address Error Redirect Service” and automatically sends web users to a page full of search ads if they type in a web address that does not exist. It appears to override customer’s own preferences ... read more ...