Tag Archives: legal

Mon 15th September 2014
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Owner of CountryGirlStore.com guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Company abused policy to try to deprive rightful owner of CountryGirl.com domain name. LML Investments, owner of Country Girl branded clothing sold at CountryGirlStore.com, has been admonished by a panel for abusing the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The company filed a cybersquatting complaint against PA Gordon, owner of CountryGirl.com. The case was filed despite Gordon having owned the domain name since well before LML Investments claims ... read more ...
Fri 12th September 2014
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Frank Schilling gets retreat domain name hijacking win on Puket.com - “Ah, Puket, let’s file this case and hope they don’t show up.” Clothing company IMB Textil S.A., which uses the domain name puket.com.br, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) for trying to steal Puket.com through UDRP. Frank Schilling parked the domain name Puket.com, an alternative spelling of Phuket in Thailand, and it showed links related to to island. IMB Textil filed the UDRP after initiating purchase negotiations with Schilling, ... read more ...
Wed 10th September 2014
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.Radio row set staid by CPE, .Art claims denied - .Radio contention set resolved and .art still up in the air. European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has won the contention set for .Radio after prevailing in a Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) for the string. That means Donuts, Afilias and BRS Media (with Minds + Machines as the back end) are out of the running for the .radio top level domain name. EBU scored 14 points out of a possible 16. 14 points are required in order to prevail. It scored 3 out of 4 on Community ... read more ...
Tue 9th September 2014
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Reverse domain name hijacking of Verb.com in a “Foolish rubbish of time” - “Baseless” complaint was a “foolish waste of time”. Three related hair care products companies have been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after trying to steal the domain name Verb.com through a UDRP. Verb Products Inc., Verb Hair Products Canada Inc., and Moroccanoil Israel Ltd. filed the complaint with the assistance of law firm Conkle, Kremer Engel, PLC. The three person WIPO panel that heard the case said it agreed with the first statement ... read more ...
Mon 8th September 2014
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Aborted Sedo understanding blamed on domain burglary in engaging soccer domain name case - Domain theft, a cancelled Sedo sale and Spain’s national soccer league. Liga de Fútbol Profesional, the Spanish soccer league with 42 teams, has lost a UDRP over the domain name LaLiga.com. “La Liga” translates to the dictionary term “league”, but the WIPO panelist who heard the case agreed that the term had acquired secondary meaning. The soccer league has multiple trademarks on the term. Indeed, LaLiga.com was clearly created with the league in mind. ... read more ...
Sun 7th September 2014
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Google Sued For Trademark Infringement Over Google Plus By Owned Of Googabox.com - Andre Rossouw filed a lawsuit against Google over its Google Plus service claiming it violates its own trademark for GOOGABOX. The Plaintiff’s also own the the domain name GOOGABOX.com. The Plaintiff also sued what appears to be Google’s attorney in this matter Eric Ball in one of the counts of the Complaint Here are the highlights of the lawsuit that was filed in the District Court of the State of California in the County of Santa Clara last week: Plaintiff adopted the trade names “GOOGABOX” ... read more ...
 
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Twitpic is Shutting Down Due To Trademark Issue With Twitter - According to a post on its company blog, Twitpic which has been around since 2008 is shutting down after due to trademark issues with Twitter. The company explained the situation and the back story on its blog post: “”Twitpic will be shutting down September 25th. You will be able to export all your photos and videos. We’ll let everyone know when this feature is live in the next few days. This is an unexpected and hard announcement for us to make and we want to lay out what led us to this decision. A ... read more ...
Fri 5th September 2014
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Clearwater Systems Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Case contradicts prior rulings involving the same complainant, but the panelist in the other cases probably got it wrong. Clearwater Systems of Akron, Ohio, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. It’s a decision that might make the company scratch its head in light of two recent victories using UDRP. The present case is for ClearWaterSystems.net, a domain name owned by a water softener and bottled water company in Indiana. Panelist Richard G. Lyon ... read more ...
Thu 4th September 2014
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.Hotel field doubt CPE row decision - Companies question result of panel decision that eliminated them from competition for .hotel domain name. Six companies that saw their bids for the .hotel domain name die as a result of a Community Priority Evaluation decision in favor of HOTEL Top-Level-Domain S.a.r.l have asked ICANN for information regarding the decision. The applicants filed a Document Information Disclosure Policy Request (DIDP) with ICANN on August 4. The DIDP requests resumes for people that ... read more ...
Wed 3rd September 2014
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Grand Funk Railroad wins box for GrandFunk.com - Popular band from the 70s catches up to the 2010’s after winning domain name case. Rock bank Grand Funk Railroad, which was very popular back in the 70s, has won rights to the domain name GrandFunk.com through a UDRP. Even if you’re too young (like me) to remember the 70s, there’s no doubt you’ve heard some of their songs. “We’re an American Band” is one of the group’s most famous songs. The domain name was registered 15 years ago, but the panelist ... read more ...
Tue 2nd September 2014
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Lawsuit filed over .email domain names - Yoyo.email files lawsuit after barrage of URS and UDRP complaints. Last month I wrote about Yoyo.email Ltd, a company that has found itself in legal hot water after registering over 4,000 .email domain names. Many of the domain names match well known brands, such as 7eleven.email, Geico.email and Budlight.email. As a result, Yoyo has already been on the receiving end of at least 34 URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension) and UDRP cases. Yoyo.email is fighting back. Last Friday ... read more ...
Fri 29th August 2014
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SC Johnson plays tricks to extent consequences of Off! Botanicals recall - Information about recall is on a non-descript domain with a restricted robots.txt file. SC Johnson, maker of Off! bug sprays, is recalling certain 4 oz bottles of its OFF! Botanicals Insect Repellent. It’s undertaking some website and search engine tricks to limit the long term consequences. Although SC Johnson is publicizing the recall, it is taking some precautions to limit long term consequences in search engines. Yesterday it registered a number of domain names ... read more ...
Thu 28th August 2014
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Nominet Handles 674 Domain Complaints Down 17%; 55% Result in Domain Transfer - Nominet the company that operates the .co.uk and now the .uk domain name extension (ccTLD)  just released its report for its Dispute Resolution Service in 2013 (DRS). In 2013 Nominet handled 674 complaints down 17% from 2012 although the number of domain names registered increase 2,7% Brands using the DRS in 2013 included Lego, Swarovski, Cash Converters, O2, Virgin, L’Oreal, Coast Fashions, Barclays and St Johns Ambulance. Of the 674 cases, 437 (65%) progressed through the formal dispute resolution ... read more ...
Wed 27th August 2014
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UDRP: Girls Do Porn, though association Doesn’t Do Trademarks well - Company runs site that is rather descriptive of its services. BLL Media Holdings has lost a UDRP it filed against Infinitoria Ltd over the domain name GirlDoPorn.com (in which “girl” in singular). The complainant purports to run the site GirlsDoPorn.com (in which “girls” is plural). BLL failed to show the World Intellectual Property Organization panelist that the domain name was confusingly similar to a mark in which it had rights. The domain name GirlsDoPorn.com ... read more ...
Mon 25th August 2014
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Domain name financier condemned to jail for taxation fraud - Australian man was active on domain name forums. A domain name investor who was active on various domain name forums has been sentenced to jail for defrauding Australian tax authorities. Michael Purse spent tens of thousands of dollars buying expired domain names, District Court Judge Steven Millsteed said. The judge said Purse got $130,134 in illegal refunds for several businesses he set up to buy the domains, reports PerthNow. According to the publication, the ... read more ...
Wed 20th August 2014
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Be Warned: WIPO Taking Screenshots When A UDRP Is Filed & Giving It To Panel & Why Its A Problem - WIPO has been taking Screenshots of whatever is on a domain name as soon as a UDRP Is filed and they have been furnishing the screenshot to the UDRP panel who has been taking the screenshot into account as evidence in making their determination. This revelation came to light by  John Berryhill who read the following sentence in the recent 4Chan.com UDRP decision: “The Center generated, as it does as a matter of standard practice, a screenshot of the website associated with the disputed domain ... read more ...
 
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Reverse domain name hijacking statute over SaintLazarusUSA.com - WIPO panelist hands down RDNH ruling. Every once in a while I read a UDRP involving organizations in a world I simply didn’t know existed. Such is the case in The American Association of the Order of St. Lazarus, Inc. v. Thierry Villejust over the domain name SaintLazarusUSA.com. The complainant was found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in the case. The respondent is “a member of the governing council of the Orleans obedience and serves as the Grand Bailiff ... read more ...
Tue 19th August 2014
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Registrant of 4,000+ .email domain names faces ascent authorised problems - Yoyo.email claims it registered trademark-matching .email domain names for a legitimate fair use. Most National Arbitration Forum panels have disagreed. You’ve probably never heard of Yoyo.email before, but it is one of the biggest individual registrants of new top level domain names in a single TLD. The company registered over 4,000 .email domain names. The problem for Yoyo.email is that a large number of these domain names match famous trademarks, such as dunkindonuts.email, ... read more ...
Mon 18th August 2014
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Porsche loses Porsche.social URS to designed fan site - Porsche.social is just a parked page, but its owners claim to be creating a free site for Porsche enthusiasts. Car company Porsche has lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension cybersquatting case it brought against the San Jose, California owner of Porsche.social. Interactiv Corporation told the URS panel that it plans to use the domain name for a free community for Porsche car enthusiasts and will put a disclaimer on every webpage that it is not affiliated with or authorized ... read more ...
Fri 15th August 2014
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4chan loses domain name brawl with Oversee.net - 4chan wanted to get the domain name 4chan.com. Popular bulletin board site 4chan has lost a case it filed to get the domain name 4chan.com. 4chan, LLC, which operates the top 1,000 site 4chan.org, filed the complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against Oversee.net back in March. One commenter on my original story about the UDRP case thought it was odd that 4chan was just now coming after the domain name. That person also pointed out that 4chan ... read more ...
Wed 13th August 2014
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Suit Filed Against BestRegistrar Over “Ransom” to Transfer Over 5K Domains Out - A company has filed a federal lawsuit against the company that owns the ICANN accredited registrar, BestRegistrar.com a few alleged resellers of BestRegistrar and the owners of the company that owns Bestregistrar.com, to “recover control of approximately 5,000 Internet domain names rightfully owned by Simon Property Group (SPG), and to recover damages both compensatory and statutory in nature arising out of: (i) Defendants’ wrongful exercise of control over the 5,000 domain names and (ii) unlawful ... read more ...
Tue 12th August 2014
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ICANN publishes updated new TLD Auction schedule - Delays now require all-party consent, so contention set resolution should accelerate. ICANN has published an updated “auction of last resort” schedule for new top level domain names. It’s harder for individual applicants to postpone these auctions now that the framework for handling name collisions is finalized. Postponements are now only possible if all parties in the contention set agree to the postponement. In that case, auctions can be postponed up to two ... read more ...
Sat 9th August 2014
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Oh, great: someone is SMS spamming Whois -

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I theory those emails a spammers send we after we register a domain name aren’t effective enough.

Don’t click a link, even out of curiosity. Your mobile phone series is appended to a URL, so they’ll know we got a message.

Via: domainnamewire.com

Thu 7th August 2014
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xBiz.com Reports Porn.com Has Been Recovered - Yesterday we wrote about a UDRP that was filed against the domain name Porn.com which we said appeared to be stolen out of a Moniker.com account. Today xBiz.com is reporting that the domain Porn.com has been recovered. It maybe interesting to note that when the domain appeared at the new registrar yesterday the domain was under privacy but today privacy was lifted and the owner was listed as the world famous domainer/adult site operator  lakshmishankar arunkumar The street address of the owner of ... read more ...
 
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ICANN 51 site shows humorous twitter from satire Chehade account - Unfiltered tweet feed on ICANN website pokes fun at .xyz giveways. Like many meetings/conferences, ICANN publishes a tweetstream on its page for each meeting. That includes the site for the upcoming ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles, which pulls in all tweets with the hashtag #icann51. The conference is still a couple months away, so you won’t find many relevant tweets about the event. It’s also an unfiltered feed. Which is what makes it funny. There are a bunch ... read more ...