Tag Archives: legal

Fri 25th July 2008
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Ex-Marchex Employees Pay Up For Competing Web Sites - Pair allegedly copied code and set up competing web sites while working at Marchex Does Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) have a good business plan? A couple of its former employees think so. The pair have agreed to pay $100,000 after allegedly copying Marchex code and creating competing web sites, reports Puget Sound Business Journal. They also agreed to take down the competing web sites. The article states: Publicly traded Marchex says it first got wind in November that ... read more ...
Thu 24th July 2008
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Hasbro Sues Over Facebook “Scrabulous” Game - Hasbro which sells the Scrabble board game, has sued over the Knockoff game on Facebook called Scrabulous. Hasbro on Thursday filed a copyright and trademark lawsuit in New York against the creators of the ad-supported Scrabulous application, which boasts an astonishing half-a million daily users. Hasbro said of Scrabulos “This is theft of intellectual property, It’s really no different from when the recording industry faced the issue of folks posting music on sites like Napster and letting ... read more ...
 
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Narnia.mobi Awarded to Trademark Holder - The World Intellectual Property Organization, ruled yesterday that the domain name Narnia.mobi should be transferred to the trademark holder. Domain name disputes focus partly on whether a “cybersquatter” is using the site for commercial gain and whether trademarks are involved. Mr Saville-Smith claimed yesterday that he had done nothing at all with the site and had not tried to make any money from it. The also argued that the trademark holder had a right to claim the domain during the .mobi ... read more ...
 
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C.S. Lewis Beats off .Mobi Cybersquatter - C.S. Lewis estate gets hands on Narnia.mobi. I have to hand it to Richard Saville-Smith and his family. Ever since the estate of C.S. Lewis, famous for The Chronicles of Narnia books, filed a UDRP against him for registering Narnia.mobi, his family has put on the pity plea with the media. How could they do this to our child, a big Narnia fan? We only registered it for a personal e-mail address. What horrible big money machine would come after us poor saps? A couple ... read more ...
Wed 23rd July 2008
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Company Goes After Fired.com in UDRP - Here’s a UDRP case that will get domainers “fired” up. A company that filed for a trademark on the term “fired” in 2004 has filed a UDRP against the owner of Fired.com to try to get the domain name. The case commenced yesterday at National Arbitration Forum. Domain Name Wire has learned that World2Work Corporation is the complainant in the case brought against Kurt Ruess. World2Work operates the Fired.tv domain. Reuss runs Contractors.com. World2Work.com ... read more ...
Tue 22nd July 2008
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Floyd Mayweather Extends Winning Streak to 40-0 - Welterweight champ extends undefeated record with domain name win. Former welterweight champion boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr., a.k.a. “Money Mayweather”, has won a domain name dispute for MoneyMayweather.com. Mayweather was 39-0 in the ring during his career, and carried his winning ways to arbitration. The panel found that Mayweather had common law rights to the “Money Mayweather” name, even though he doesn’t have a filed trademark. This is common in cases ... read more ...
Mon 21st July 2008
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ICANN Seeks Fix for Registry Failure - ICANN creating contingency plan for registry failure. We’ve seen domain registrars, such as RegisterFly, lose their accreditation. But what happens when a domain registry that manages an entire top level domain (TLD) goes out of business? This isn’t a far-fetched situation. Tralliance, the registry for .travel, almost when kaput last year. And with perhaps hundreds of new registries forming over the coming years as ICANN relaxes its restrictions for new top ... read more ...
Tue 15th July 2008
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Google Sued Over Parked Domain Names - Lawsuit alleges ads on parked domains are low quality and unlikely to convert. A lawyer has sued Google claiming that none of his ads on parked domain names converted into leads, and that Google didn’t provide an easy way to opt out of domain parking, writes Information Week. The lawyer spent $136.11 on ads on parked domains and error pages. He got 668 clicks and zero conversions, according to the lawsuit. According to the article, the lawsuit alleges that “Google ... read more ...
Tue 8th July 2008
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Authorize.net Isn’t “Authorized”, Loses Domain Name Dispute - Reseller for Authorize.net can keep AuthorizeD.net. A reseller for online payment gateway company Authorize.net has prevailed in a UDRP case at WIPO. Authorize.net filed the complaint against Cardservice High Sierra of Colfax, California on May 14, 2008, claiming that Cardservice High Sierra was infringing its brand by using Authorized.net as its domain name to resell Authorize.net’s services. But this particular case hinged on the fact that Authorize.net had ... 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 ...
Sat 28th June 2008
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How Can A .xxx/.sex Extension Be OK Now? - I have read hundreds of stories about ICANN voting to allow the creation of an unlimited amount of domain extensions in the mainstream media.  Each and everyone of these article talks about an adult extension .xxx/.sex or some other version as a foregone conclusion in terms of popularity among users and applicants. The question is how can ICANN approve an adult extension now having turned down .xxx three times already? On March 30, 2007, just over a year ago, ICANN rejected the .xxx extension for ... read more ...
 
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.UK Registry Nominet Gets Nominet.com - Registry for United Kingdom domain names gets .com version of its name through UDRP. Nominet, the registry responsible for managing the .uk country code domain name, has won the domain name Nominet.com through arbitration at World Intellectual Property Organization. The company’s official web site is Nominet.org.uk, but it also owns Nominet.co.uk. The respondent in the case was Hansoo Bae of South Korea. The panel’s decision was rendered in Korean. Bae had ... read more ...
Thu 26th June 2008
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Arbitration Panel Punts on All.com - All.com domain dispute denied by WIPO panel; forgery claims too much to handle. A three member WIPO panel has denied a complaint for the domain name All.com, saying the case is outside of UDRP’s scope. The case involves an alleged sale of the domain name, to which the “buyer” produced documents showing the sale and transfer of money and the “seller” said he knows nothing about. The complainant purchased the domain name in 2005 when it was registered at GoDaddy. ... read more ...
 
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What Does ICANN’s ‘Yes’ Vote Mean to You? Not Much. - ICANN’s decision to liberalize the process for adding new TLDs won’t have much of an affect on you, unless you manage trademarks. Today ICANN voted to liberalize the process and acceptance of new top level domains (similar to .info and .asia). What does this mean to the average domainer and internet user? Despite the mainstream media sensationalizing this (.sex is coming!), I doubt it will add up to much. Trademark lawyers will have busy dockets. Depending ... read more ...
Tue 24th June 2008
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BerryHill Gets Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Charge Against Italian Company - Lawyer defends Gregory Ricks on Decal.com, wins RDNH charge. Domain name lawyer John Berryhill has successfully defended famed domainer Gregory Rick’s Decal.com domain name, as well as getting a charge of reverse domain name hijacking against Italian company Decal (Depositi Costieri Calliope). The decision, handed down on June 11 and just posted online, details an egregious attempt by the Italian company to steal a generic domain name that wasn’t used in an infringing ... read more ...
Thu 19th June 2008
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Jimmy Buffett Needs His CheeseburgersInParadise.com - UDRP filing goes after domain name CheeseburgerSinparadise.com. An arbitration request has been filed with National Arbitration Forum over the domain name CheeseburgersInParadise.com. This is similar to “Cheeseburger (singular) in Paradise”, the famous song and brand owned by Jimmy Buffett and his associated companies. My guess is his restaurant chain, which uses the CheeseburgerInParadise.com domain name, is going after the domain. A screenshot of CheeseburgerSinparadise.com ... read more ...
Wed 18th June 2008
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FireFox 3.0 Released: Is it Bad News for a Domain Industry? - I just downloaded the new verision of FireFox 3.0 web browser which features the new “Awesome Bar” which Mozilla says is a new way of using the address bar on top of the browser to navigate the internet taking into account your bookmarks and viewing history.  Mozilla says that the “Awesome Bar” basically turns the address bar into a search engine. “No longer do you have to know the domain of the page you’re looking for the AwesomeBar will match what you’re typing (even multiple words) ... read more ...
Tue 17th June 2008
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Media Breakaway To Pay $6 Million to MySpace - Affiliate company ordered to pay for affiliates’ “spamming” of MySpace network. If you’ve ever been to a TRAFFIC domain name conference, you’ve probably run into Scott Richter, who heads Media Breakaway. He’s one of the guys bidding lots of money on domain names during the auction. His company just got hit with a $6 million dollar judgment by MySpace, which charged his company with spamming its members. Media Breakaway claims that its affiliates were ... read more ...
Mon 16th June 2008
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Nortel A Cybersquatter? - Here is something that raises an eyeborw…..Nortel (A large Public Company) put together a shortlived new ad campaign targeting Cisco with Domains using Cisco’s Trademark like; ciscoenergytax.com and yourciscoenergytax.com Here is an excerpt from the WSJ: “Nortel, which normally relies on conventional media campaigns, has taken more of an edge this time to leverage its marketing budget. It has linked to bloggers, launched a Web-based “energy efficiency calculator,” even posted grainy trade-show ... read more ...
 
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Interesting How a Media Views Trademark Domain Disputes When Domainers Are Not Involved - This is an interesting story Interesting because it involves a trademark dispute by the trademark holder against someone who is not a domainer, just an end user, and interesting because the media seems to be unanimously siding with the owners, and against the trademark holder In a story which has been written about in over 45 publications today,  a father registered the domain narnia.mobi for his son  and gave it to him  for  his 10th birthday to use  as an e-mail address. Seems as the father ... read more ...
Fri 13th June 2008
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Who Owns Hillary4McCain.com? DomainTools To a Rescue - A bit of research turns up a probable registrant of Hillary4McCain.com. I read a story on Wired.com today about the domain name Hillary4Mccain.com, which was registered with bogus whois information. The John McCain camp denies having anything to do with the domain. So who owns the domain? I did a little research on DomainTools, and it leads to one person: Charles Reyna. Here’s what I did: 1. Looked up Hillary4McCain.com 2. Did a reverse IP search to see the ... read more ...
Thu 12th June 2008
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Facebook Wins Facebook.com.au Domain Name - Social networking behemoth wins domain name from Australian company. Facebook has won the Facebook.com.au domain name from Australian company Callverse Pty Ltd. The domain name currently advertises a “click to call service” that is “coming soon”. The decision was handed down by a three person panel at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The decision has not been posted online yet so details of the dispute are not available. Domain Name Wire ... read more ...
Wed 11th June 2008
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Canadian Broadcaster CTV Loses Battle for CTV.com - CTV goes after valuable generic domain name through UDRP and loses. Murat Yikilmaz has successfully defended an attempt by Canadian broadcasting company CTV to take away his three character domain name. CTV currently uses CTV.ca as its domain name. In a 2-1 decision at National Arbitration Forum, the panel found that CTV doesn’t have worldwide exclusive rights to the term “CTV”, and that Yikilmaz’s purchase of the domain to attract traffic was a legitimate ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2008
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Tucker Carlson Gets His Domain Name - Celebrity wins decision for TuckerCarlson.com. Conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson has won rights to the domain name TuckerCarlson.com. The decision handed down through World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) under UDRP on June 2. In Carlson’s complaint, he claimed common law rights to the name “Tucker Carlson”: Complainant states that he is “an internationally famous television news anchor and author, most famous for his role as anchor of ... read more ...
Sat 7th June 2008
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Adult Film Producer Max Hardcore Loses His Freedom and His Domains. - After a two week federal obscenity trial in Tampa, the jury found Max Hardcore, whose real name is Paul F. Little, guilt of producing and distribution of obscene material. The jury convicted him and his company, Max World Entertainment, on 20 obscenity counts, required him to forfeit his three most popular domain names, including Maxhardcore.com and he is facing as many as 50 years in prison. Sentencing is set for September 5. Of course selling or distributing porn is not illegal, but it is illegal ... read more ...