30 Community and Limited Public Interest objections withdrawn -
30 new top level domain name objections filed with the International Chamber of Commerce have been terminated.
Objectors have withdrawn 30 new TLD objections filed with the International Chamber of Commerce as of yesterday, according to the group’s updated list of objections.
27 are community objections and three are limited public interest objections.
Although some of the objections have been withdrawn because the top level domain application withdrew its application ... read more ...
Tag Archives: legal
Tue 27th August 2013
Kudos to a World Intellectual Property Organization -
WIPO’s online reporting functionality beats its competitors.
I write a lot of articles bashing decisions made by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panelists in UDRPs. So I think it’s only fair that I give the group props when it’s deserved.
The new top level domain name objection process has reminded me how WIPO’s online reporting systems are way, way better than the competition.
Three organizations are handling top level domain name application ... read more ...
Mon 26th August 2013
Five domain name sessions pitched for SXSW 2014 -
Four Five domain name sessions have been proposed for SXSW Interactive 2014. Voting ends September 6.
Voting for which panels will make the cut at next year’s SXSW Interactive conference is underway. I identified four five submissions this year that are related to the domain name industry. Voting ends September 6.
The Discussion’s Over – New Domains Are Here – Vote
Sedo’s Jeremiah Johnston hopes to return to SXSW for a third straight year to discuss new ... read more ...
Nau strikes again: Google wins .tours conflict opposite Donuts -
.Tours and .Tour top level domain strings found too similar, will be placed in contention set.
Another day, another inconsistent string confusion objection for new top level domain names.
This time Google has won an objection (pdf) against Donuts’ application for .tours. Google applied for .tour, and now .tour and .tours will be placed in a contention set as a result of the ruling.
Once you see the panelist’s name for this decision, you won’t be surprised by ... read more ...
planet.ECO loses conflict opposite TLDH for .eco tip turn domain name -
TLDH gets a victory in fight over .eco.
The latest salvo in the fight for the .eco top level domain name has been successfully defended by Top Level Domain Holdings.
A World Intellectual Property Organization panel denied planet.ECO, LLC’s Legal Rights Objection against TLDH for .eco.
planet.ECO has a U.S. trademark for .eco, which was granted because the applicant shielded the fact that it was to be used for a top level domain name.
Panelist Luca Barbero determined ... read more ...
Dish DBS and .Hotel applicant record “appeals” to new TLD conflict decisions -
Two companies appeal to ICANN’s board for reconsideration of new TLD objections.
The first of what are likely many “appeals” of new top level domain name objections have been filed with ICANN’s board in the form of Requests for Reconsideration.
Both Dish DBS and Hotel Top Level Domain S.a.r.l. filed Requests for Reconsideration with the board on Friday. Each request blames the process created by ICANN as well as the decision making by the panelists.
Dish DBS ... read more ...
Fri 23rd August 2013
Police Officer In Jail For Buying Domains Of Police Chief & Pointing Them To Porn - According to turnto10.com the site of an NBC affiliate station in Rhode Island, “A Richmond police officer faces charges after state police said he purchased domain names containing variations of the chief’s name which redirected Internet users to pornographic web sites.”
The domain name involved according to one report were the elwoodjohnson.com and elwoodjohnsonjr.com.
“Steven Gravier, 41, was arraigned Friday in Providence District Court and charged with using misleading domain names on ... read more ...
Verisign and PIR get wins for IDN tip turn domain names -
Company that offered pseudo-domains loses objections to IDN top level domains.
Verisign and Public Interest Registry have successfully defended applications for internationalized domain names that are transliterations of existing top level domain names.
Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd filed legal rights objections against Verisign’s application for .ком and PIR’s application for .орг. These are transliterations of .com and .org, respectively, in Cyrillic.
The ... read more ...
How String Confusion Objections Became a Clusterf@ck -
There are a number of reasons for contradictory String Confusion Objections for top level domain names.
The guy in the middle got the right panelist.Of the four types of objections that could be lodged against new top level domain name applications, it would seem that string confusion objections would be the most basic.
Is one string confusingly similar to another?
Yet, while most people (other than the losers) haven’t had issues with Legal Rights Objections, there ... read more ...
Thu 22nd August 2013
Right Before Start Of Regular Season, The NFL Gains Control Of Almost 1K Bang On Domain Names - With the regular NFL season looking to kick off in just a couple of weeks the NFL gained control of just under 1,000 bang on domain names yesterday.
The domain names were all transferred to the NFL’s brand protection company MarkMonitor.com.
The domain names had many different owners according to the whois records but many of the records appeared to have just made up information like the domain name sf49ersteamstore.com which had a registered owner listed as Treasa Buskey of Denver, Houston ... read more ...
California wineries are a bit dipsomaniac over .wine tip turn domains -
Two groups representing the same wineries take opposite views on .wine and .vin top level domains.
When you’re around a cellar full of wine, it’s understandable that your judgment might get a bit cloudy.
Does that explain the apparent contradiction between two different California wine groups and their view of geographic second level domains in the .wine and .vin top level domain names?
Here’s the contradiction.
In June, the Wine Institute sent a letter to ICANN ... read more ...
More trouble: apparently .Sport and .Sports are also confusingly similar -
Panelist sides with SportAccord in objection against .sports.
International Centre for Dispute Resolution has posted an updated list of string confusion objections, and there’s more trouble.
SportAccord, an applicant for the .sport domain, has successfully objected to Donuts’ application for .Sports.
SportAccord argued that “a significant degree of confusion would occur between any TLD string that is understood to be the plural of another TLD string.”
Panelist ... read more ...
String Confusions Gone Wild: Amazon IDN is found identical to opposite word in English -
“Online Shopping” in Japanese is too similar to .shop in English, panelist rules.
Some new top level domain name string confusions objection decisions have been baffling. A difference in opinion on .cam vs. .com. Plurals vs. Singulars.
But now string confusions have officially gone off the deep end.
A panelist has found that Amazon.com’s application for .通販, which is Japanese for “Online Shopping”, is too similar to .shop.
Commercial Connect, which ... read more ...
Wed 21st August 2013
Louis Vuitton Files Federal Cybersquatting Suit over 98 Domain Names - For the 2nd day in a row a trademark holder has bypassed the UDRP process and went straight to federal court to file a suit over trademarked infringing domains.
This time it is luxury handbag maker Louis Vuitton that filed the suit under the ACPA seeking $100,000 in statutory damages per domain, plus the domain and attorney fees on 96 domain names
Here are the domain names subject to the suit
The case number is 1:13-cv-22964-FAM and it was filed with the Florida Southern District Court
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Seiko wins UDRP for 138 domains opposite 106 “respondents” -
Panel consolidates claim on basis that 106 respondents are actually just one group.
Watchmaker Seiko has won a UDRP covering 138 domain names that include “seiko” in them.
The number of domain names would make this case interesting enough. Making it more interesting is that there are technically 106 respondents to the UDRP.
UDRP’s can only be filed against a single domain name owner. Multiple owners can’t be consolidated into one case. But Seiko argued that ... read more ...
Tue 20th August 2013
Adidas/Reebok Files Federal Lawsuit Over 372 Domain Names Under ACPA - Sports equipment maker Adidas which owns Reebok filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of 372 domain names including .com’s, .net’s .org’s .info’s .biz and even co.uk and .Eu domain names in the Florida Southern District Court.
Adidas is asking for statutory damages of $100,000 each under the ACPA as well as forfeiture of the domain names and its attorney fees.
Here are the domains which are the subject of this suit:
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ICANN needs to chuck TLD field a bone on name collisions -
If delays are necessary, ICANN should pitch in for monitoring and notification system.
A couple weeks ago new top level domain name applicants received some very unwelcome news: many of their TLDs could be significantly delayed due to security concerns about “name collisions”.
Basically, some private networks already ping non-existent top level domain names that applicants have applied for. This leads to so-called name collisions.
ICANN should have undertaken ... read more ...
Who owns a domain names ICANN Labs is using? -
ICANN Labs is rolling out experimental websites, but it isn’t the registrant of the domain names it’s using.
ICANN Labs is ICANN’s attempt to introduce innovation in four areas: discovery, conversation, communication, and education. ICANN has partnered with web developer/product designer Neo on the venture.
Regardless of whether this ends up being a fruitful venture, you can be sure that any domain names used for ICANN Labs will be registered with best practices.
Or ... read more ...
Mon 19th August 2013
Land Rover found guilty of RDNH in sardonic cybersquatting decision -
Panelist rips apart Land Rover.
Land Rover has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP case it brought against a Montana dealer of old school Land Rovers that uses the domain MountainRovers.com.
This is despite the car dealer not responding to the UDRP. Even more noteworthy is the scathing critique panelist Houston Putnam Lowry had for Land Rover.
Lowry determined that Land Rover didn’t meet any of the three necessary requirements to win a ... read more ...
.Academy, .Blue and .Bio new TLD objections denied -
WIPO denies three more challenges to new top level domain names.
World Intellectual Property Organization panels have denied three more top level domain name Legal Rights Objections.
All of the objections were filed against strings that are not in contention sets.
.Academy – Academy Sports + Outdoors filed this objection against Donuts. A number of brands have challenged Donuts over its domains including .coach, .limited, and .express. All have failed. This sums ... read more ...
Uh-Oh: String likeness panels remonstrate on .cam vs. .com -
One panelist dings .cam while two others say it’s OK.
ICANN’s string similarity objections are about to face a big challenge.
Demand Media subsidiary United TLD has lost an objection brought by Verisign against United TLD’s .cam domain name application.
But two other applicants, AC Webconnecting BV and dotAgency Limited, have prevailed against Verisign’s challenges.
If the rules for string similarity are written well enough, how can panelists disagree on the ... read more ...
Sat 17th August 2013
Brand Protection Fail: This Weeks TM Domains Brands Let Drop & Get Registered Boeing; NCAA; ESPN Google AP & More - We have written over the years about brands, brand protection companies and dropping domain names which both brands and brand protection companies continue to miss.
Not only do they miss grabbing them but they don’t even seem to try.
Its pretty interesting sitting on the sidelines every week seeing companies spending $1,500 a pop to file a UDRP on a single domain name (plus attorneys fees) on the same type of domain names that are dropping and can be picked up for $69 on a back order or sometimes ... read more ...
Fri 16th August 2013
ICANN strictly kills Google’s devise for dotless Search tip turn domain name -
Board resolution quashes dotless domains again, at least for now.
ICANN’s New gTLD Program Committee has passed a resolution confirming a prohibition on so-called dotless domain names, effectively killing Google’s plans for a dotless .search top level domain name.
A dotless top level domain name would resolve without a dot. For example, while something.example will resolve in most browsers, http://example will not.
Google had hoped to use “search” as a dotless ... read more ...
Here’s Del Monte’s WEIRD lawsuit to overturn .delmonte decision -
Del Monte International uses cybersquatting and UDRP rules in attempt to overturn .delmonte objection.
Yesterday I wrote about Del Monte International (DMI) Gmbh’s lawsuit against Del Monte Corporation (DMC) after the latter won its objection to the former’s application for the .delmonte top level domain.
The court has now published the complaint (pdf).
On the surface, I understand the complaint. DMI is trying to argue that the World Intellectual Property Organization ... read more ...
A month after initial 4 TLD contracts signed, still usually 4 signed -
There’s been a delay (surprise!) after the first four TLD contracts were signed.
ICANN took advantage of its public meeting in Durban, South Africa last month for a public signing of the first four top level domain name contracts.
It’s been a full month since then, and no one else has signed a contract yet.
ICANN has just published a new statistics page to track the progress of registry signings. Although only four have signed so far, it looks like a lot more ... read more ...