Tag Archives: lawsuits

Fri 23rd October 2015
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California Car Dealers Head to Court over Domain Names - Ford dealer claims rival is stealing its web traffic. Two neighboring car dealers in California are heading to court over cybersquatting claims. El Centro, California Ford dealer El Centro Motors alleges (pdf) that Rogers Rogers, a Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge dealer on the same road less than a half mile away, is cybersquatting its brands and diverting web traffic. El Centro Motors registered ElCentroMotors.com in 2001. Rogers Rogers registered ElCentroMotor.com (singular) and ElCentroFord.com last year. ... read more ...
Tue 22nd September 2015
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MySchool.com lawsuit moves brazen with several twists and turns - Lawyers withdraw, defendant asks for attorneys fees based on comment on DNW. A lawsuit over the domain name MySchool.com is heating up, with the defendant’s lawyers citing a comment made on Domain Name Wire as grounds to recover attorneys fees. Joseph Carpenter, who runs the site MySchool411.com, filed a federal lawsuit to get the domain name MySchool.com. This was after he lost two separate UDRP cases for the domain name. Carpenter has switched lawyers in the case multiple times. Most recently, ... read more ...
Thu 17th September 2015
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Finally! Google sues robocallers Local Lighthouse - Google files trademark infringement suit against bothersome SEO/SEM company. Google has sued Local Lighthouse Corp, which has undertaken a massive robocall and telemarketing campaign and, from personal experience, tried to trick callers into thinking it was associated with Google. It’s likely you’ve received a robocall from these this group, even if you didn’t know who was behind it. The calls suggest the caller is from Google, or representing Google, and needs to talk to you about your search ... read more ...
Fri 11th September 2015
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Huge feat for Domain Registrars and Parking companies in GoDaddy justice case - Case provides ammunition for domain name registrars and domain parking companies in cybersquatting claims. A court has found in GoDaddy’s favor in a long running cybersquatting battle brought by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The 128-page decision (pdf) has lots of findings that will be cited in cybersquatting lawsuits for years to come. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is responsible for The Oscars, formally known as the Academy Awards. It sued GoDaddy in 2010 ... read more ...
Tue 4th August 2015
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July's Hottest Domain Name Stories - Sex.com, a $50,000 cybersquatting settlement and more. Legal stuff continued to make headlines in July in the domain biz. ParkingCrew also made things interesting with its acquisition of NameDrive. Here’s a look back at the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month. 1. Sex.Com lawsuit – company demands domain name over copyright and trademark claims. 2. Work Better Updates – I wrote several posts about the WorkBetter.com cybersquatting lawsuit last month that made the top charts. The owner ... read more ...
Mon 27th July 2015
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A Crazy Cybersquatting Lawsuit with Jason Kneen – DNW Podcast #43 - The inside story of a baseless cybersquatting lawsuit. Imagine that you’re an app developer who has registered a handful of domain names over the years. One day your twitter feed and phone lights up with people discussing how you’re being sued over one of the domain names you own. That’s exactly what happened to Jason Kneen. A new business starting up in 2014 filed a cybersquatting lawsuit against the domain name WorkBetter.com, which he registered way back in 1999. Jason is on the show today ... read more ...
Fri 6th February 2015
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Web pattern association sues GoDaddy over "It's Go Time" slogan - Company says it was using the slogan first. A small web development company is suing GoDaddy over its “It’s Go Time” slogan, arguing that it started using the moniker well before GoDaddy adopted it. Plaintiff The Easy Life, LLC runs GoWeb1. The company says it is actually a reseller of GoDaddy’s domain name services. It alleges that it has had the same account manager at GoDaddy and has been emailing newsletters to that account manager — including the It’s Go Time slogan – since at ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2014
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Web.com sued for telemarketing calls - Plaintiff complains about multiple telemarketing calls. A California resident has sued Web.com, claiming the company called her cell phone multiple times in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The lawsuit seeks class action status. Web.com disclosed the lawsuit in its most recent quarterly filing: On October 31, 2014, a putative class action was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (Tammy Hussin, et al. v. Web.com Group, ... read more ...
Thu 2nd October 2014
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Affiliate Summit sues hotel engagement company - Organizers say defendants are tricky conference attendees into booking hotel rooms. Many people in the domain name industry that go to January’s NamesCon conference will stick around Vegas for the Affiliate Summit conference, which starts January 18. If you are going to the show, beware: organizers of the conference say a company is misrepresenting itself to attendees in order to sell hotel bookings. In a lawsuit (pdf) filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, Affiliate ... read more ...
Tue 30th September 2014
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Company pays $25k to solve lawsuit stemming from UDRP - Domain name owner that sued after losing UDRP settles for $25,000 (not including the domain). Companies that file long shot UDRPs with the hope of scoring a great domain name, take note. An Austin company has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against it after it initiated a UDRP case. And the company won its UDRP. Austin Pain Associates filed a UDRP against AustinPain.com, a domain owned by HugeDomains. I was surprised that the complainant won, and believe ... read more ...
Fri 20th June 2014
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UDRPsearch owners sues after being threatened with UDRP - Virtual Point sues after person threatens UDRP if it doesn’t sell a domain for $1,000. The owner of UDRP database site UDRPSearch.com has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) after being threatened with a UDRP. Virtual Point Inc filed the lawsuit after an individual tried to buy the domain name ALFinancial.com and allegedly threatened to file a UDRP if Virtual Point did not agree to a low price. According to the filing, Joseph Rosenzweig contacted the plaintiff about acquiring ... read more ...
Wed 14th May 2014
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Company sues to overturn UDRP decision - Company turns to courts (again) to try to overturn adverse UDRP ruling. Technology Online, LLC has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Nevada to overturn a UDRP against the domain name Jeffers.com. Veterinarian supply company Jeffers, Inc. filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization earlier this year and won the case. Technology Online argues that the panelist in that case erred because she considered the date Technology Online acquired the domain ... read more ...
Thu 3rd April 2014
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HugeDomains sues medical organisation to keep domain and claims RDNH - HugeDomains claims Austin medical group provided false statements in UDRP. A couple weeks ago I wrote about a UDRP for AustinPain.com and how I thought the panel got it wrong. Now HugeDomains, which was on the losing end of the case, has filed suit to halt the transfer and is asking to recover damages under Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH). The suit was filed against Austin Pain Associates in U.S. District Court in Colorado yesterday. In the suit, HugeDomains ... read more ...
Wed 12th June 2013
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Wanna lawsuit? WannaDo battles WannaDo in court, claims cybersquatting - App creator sues event ticketing site over Wannado name and domain name. Two businesses offer relatively similar services at a about the same time and use the same name: WannaDo. One secures the best domain name for the service. Wanna bet that results in a lawsuit? Yep. Wannado, Inc. has sued The Active Network, Inc over its use of the Wannado name and Wannado.com. The plaintiff is a Tennessee corporation that offers an app on the iTunes store. The Wannado app provides ... read more ...
Mon 8th April 2013
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California seat seller files fit over UrbanHome.com - Second lawsuit filed after UDRP decision. The legal expenses are mounting on this one. Urban Home, the California furniture maker that filed a UDRP on UrbanHome.com, has now filed a federal lawsuit in California to try to get the domain name. The suit is in response to UrbanHome.com’s owner, Technology Online, filing suit in Nevada to halt the transfer of the domain name. The WIPO panel found in favor of Urban Home. Technology Online decided to sue to stop the transfer. I’m ... read more ...
Tue 19th March 2013
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University of Central Florida sues wine store that owns UCFliquorstore.com - University of Central Florida takes issue with liquor store’s marketing and domain name. The page that used to be at UCFLiquorStore.com. Screenshots.com on December 23, 2012.The University of Central Florida has sued a local liquor store that bills itself as “Your Official UCF Liquor Store”. Pat’s Liquor, which is located about a mile from UCF’s Orlando campus, has been using the domain name UCFLiquorStore.com and pitching itself as the official local store ... read more ...
Thu 6th December 2012
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Citigroup sues to get CityCard.com, a domain it won in UDRP - South Korean court blocked transfer of domain after UDRP; Citi files suit in the United States. Last September a National Arbitration Forum panel ruled that Citigroup should get the domain name CityCard.com. [Update: the court entered a default judgment for Citigroup and the domain has been transferred.] But the owner of the domain name sued in South Korea court to block the transfer. Now Citigroup has filed an in rem action against the CityCard.com domain name in ... read more ...
Tue 30th October 2012
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Garage doorway domain evidence goes to court - Garage door wars. A couple weeks ago I wrote about a UDRP in which a panelist who knew little about internet marketing awarded the domain name BoiseGarageDoor.com to a garage door company in Boise. Now the respondent in that case has filed a lawsuit to block the transfer (pdf). It also claims that the UDRP complainant Boise Garage Door, LLC is slandering and libeling it. According to the suit: Upon information and belief, on October 5, Defendant or his counsel left ... read more ...
Tue 23rd October 2012
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Lawsuit claims Go Daddy illegally available phone calls - Two California men claim domain registrar recorded calls without permission. You know the line… “This call may be recorded for quality or training purposes”. Well, according to two California men, their phone calls with domain name registrar Go Daddy were secretly recorded in violation of California law. The lawsuit they just filed (pdf) seeks class action status and $5,000 per recorded phone call for all California residents who had a phone call with the company ... read more ...
Thu 4th October 2012
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Company sues to get Reinvention.com domain name - Marketing company claims domain infringes its re:invention mark. An Illinois marketing company called Reinvention, Inc. has sued data sampling company Reinvention, LLC, which owns the Reinvention.com domain name. The brief, five page complaint (pdf) claims that Reinvention, LLC is infringing on Reinvention, Inc’s trademark for “re:invention”. Reinvention, Inc. filed for its trademark last year and it was granted this year. It claims first use in commerce in ... read more ...
Fri 7th September 2012
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Libya loses anticybersquatting lawsuit - Libya and its embassy lose a domain name lawsuit that started well before Gaddafi’s overthrow. A federal district court yesterday handed down a ruling in a very interesting cybersquatting case, and much of the interest lies in who the plaintiff was: Libya. Back in 2006 The Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Embassy of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya filed suit against Ahmad Miski for cybersquatting. (After the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi’s government, ... read more ...
Fri 31st August 2012
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Macth.com owners sues Match.com and CitizenHawk after losing UDRP - Domain owner files complaint to halt transfer of domain name after losing UDRP. The owner of Macth.com has sued online dating company Match.com and domain name recovery firm CitizenHawk after losing a UDRP for her domain name. In a complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida (pdf), Liz Eddy is asking for declaratory relief and financial penalties. She says Macth.com is a generic typo. Eddy lost a UDRP for Macth.com on August 15. She alleges that Match.com ... read more ...
Thu 19th July 2012
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DomainTools lawsuit discharged for miss of jurisdiction - Preemptive case against New Jersey man can’t go forward in Washington, judge rules. DomainTools’ preemptive lawsuit against Russ Smith has been dismissed (pdf) with prejudice for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue. Russ Smith had threatened to sue DomainTools for copyright infringement and try to get its trademark canceled. Among Smith’s complaints: DomainTools’ archival of snapshots of his web site home pages were copyright violations. Instead ... read more ...
Mon 16th July 2012
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That’s some (un)intellectual property - Attorney starts blog covering overzealous intellectual property enforcers. I write a lot about companies that seem to think they have universal rights to generic terms. Whether it’s a UDRP or a trademark lawsuit, some companies seem to think they control terms such as entrepreneur, elk, and (ironically) “legal advice“. That’s why I think I’m going to like a new blog from Brian Hall, an attorney with Traverse Legal. UnIntellectualProperty.com covers cases ... read more ...
Fri 13th July 2012
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Default settlement released opposite Paris in domain fight, indemnification conference on tap - Paris may face damages in reverse domain name hijacking case. A Texas district court has filed an entry of default against Ville de Paris in a domain name squabble. The case involves Parvi.org. The city of Paris won a UDRP case for the domain name in 2009. When Paris filed the complaint it agreed to jurisdiction in Texas for matters stemming from the dispute. Domain owner Jeffrey Walter took advantage of the jurisdiction, filing a lawsuit against Paris in U.S. District ... read more ...