Tag Archives: legal

Thu 6th June 2013
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ICANN hires new COO, moves Atallah - ICANN shakes up leadership positions. ICANN has moved chief operating officer Akram Atallah to a new role and hired a replacement from outside the organization. Atallah has been named president of the Generic Domains Division. This new group will focus on generic domain operations, domain name industry engagement and web services for the community. The division is being created because of the increase in “scale and responsibility” for ICANN in the wake of new ... read more ...
Wed 5th June 2013
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Irony alert: Trademark association loses cybersquatting explain on TrademarkDirect.com.au - “UK’s Leading Trade Mark Service” loses cybersquatting complaint. Oh, it’s delicious. Trade Mark Direct Ltd of London has lost a cybersquatting complaint filed under the .au Dispute Resolution Policy for the domain name TrademarkDirect.com.au. The irony of the Trade Mark Direct’s utter failure to provide sufficient evidence in the case was not lost on the panel, which wrote: It is clear that the disputed domain name is identical to the trademark which is ... read more ...
 
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Scammy consult site beats Tumblr in domain dispute - Lawyers don’t provide enough evidence to convince panel that domain was registered in bad faith. Tumblr, the company that Yahoo is acquiring for $1.1 billion, has lost a cybersquatting claim for the domain name tublr.com. In its complaint filed with World Intellectual Property Organization, Tumblr argued the domain name was registered as a typo of Tumblr.com to take advantage of the blogging site. The company is probably right. Type Tublr.com into your web browser ... read more ...
Tue 4th June 2013
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Can this one elementary step save we in a UDRP? - …or how about those “disclaimers” on prostitution websites which say things like “This offer is for companionship only. By contacting me, you agree you are not a law enforcement officer, and that anything that might happen other than companionship is between consenting adults” and so on. You might as well put up a flashing GIF that says “PROSTITUTION HERE!” When I was about five years old, I had left a mess in the kitchen and my mother lined us up to ask “Who left this ... read more ...
 
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Why do people rubbish income filing this arrange of UDRP opposite Name Administration? - No one has ultimately prevailed after filing a UDRP against Name Administration. Before you filed a UDRP, you’d think you’d google the domain name’s owner to learn more. Yet time after time I see people file long shot UDRP complaints against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. Today’s winner is the company that filed against Klipz.com. Since the case was filed at National Arbitration Forum, we don’t yet know who the complainant is. There’s one registered ... read more ...
 
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Telepathy fends off Valio’s conflict on LGG.com - Company tries to make claim to LGG.com 15 years after it’s registered. Telepathy, the domain name company run by domain investor Nat Cohen, has successfully defended his domain name LGG.com in a UDRP. The complaint was brought by Valio Ltd, a Finnish dairy company and was filed with Czech Arbitration Court. If you’re not familiar with Telepathy, it owns the largest portfolio of three letter .com domain names in the world, with over 1,000 of them. Cohen also helps ... read more ...
Mon 3rd June 2013
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German Court Limits Use Of Berlin.com & Requires Disclaimers On Site - A German Appellate court has ruled that World Media Group LLC (World.com) which owns the domain name Berlin.com has to cease using the domain name in connection with a website providing information on Berlin because such use constitutes an infringement of the rights of the state Berlin in the name under Sec. 12 of the German Civil Code. The domain name Berlin.com was registered on June 23rd, 1995 Today due to the ruling, there is a disclaimer on the very top each website stating that the website ... read more ...
 
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Samsung news site can keep the domain name notwithstanding Adsense ads - Site with Google Adsense ads still may qualify for “non-commercial”, UDRP panel rules. SamsungHub.com, started in 2006, now forwards to SammyHub.com.The owner of SamsungHub.com can keep his domain name, a WIPO panel has ruled in a UDRP brought by tech giant Samsung. Kunal Gangar began using the domain name in 2006. In 2011 Samsung released an app called SamsungHub, so Gangar registered a new domain – SammyHub.com – and redirected SamsungHub.com to it. Although ... read more ...
Sun 2nd June 2013
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Getty Images Waits 12 Years Before Going After GettyImage.com; GM 9 Years For Corvette-Stingray.com - Its quite amazing to me when I see a bang on trademark infringing domain allowed to be owned and monetized by someone other than the trademark owner. I’m not talking about typos, misspells or terms that include the trademark but is a reach based on the business of the domain holder. I’m talking about a domain like GettyImage.com which is right up Getty’s business which sells stock photos or images. Its pretty amazing to think that Getty allowed someone to hold on to the domain name Gettyimage.com ... read more ...
Thu 30th May 2013
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IP Pro Chats UDRP’s With Attorney’s Muscovitch, Lewis, Neu, and Pearlman - ipprotheinternet.com, in its latest issue chats about UDRP shopping, inconsistent decisions which are bound to occur since none of the providers require uniformity and the coming URS. The article quotes a lot of familiar UDRP attorney’s including Zak Muscovitch, Brett Lewis, Howard Neu, and Eli Pearlman, The article also quotes  Kristine Dorrain, director of internet and IP services at NAF a UDRP provider. Forum shopping is going to become more of an issue, as their are now four providers and ... read more ...
 
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Fling.com discovers a hurdles of branding with a general domain name - Descriptive nature of domain means registrant not necessarily lacking rights or legitimate interests in domain. Fling.com, an adult social network that facilitates hookups, has lost a domain name dispute over best-fling-sites.com. According to Fling.com owner Global Personals, LLC, the registrant of the domain optimized it to show up high in search results when a user searches for the Fling.com site. The company presented evidence that suggests the respondent was ... read more ...
Wed 29th May 2013
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Company sues NamingRights.com, and it’s kind of interesting - I haven’t heard the name Backslap Domains in a while. Greek Island Labs, a company that sells cosmetic products, has sued NamingRights.com and Backslap Domains for cybersquatting* over the domain name Adonia.com (pdf). Greek Island Labs sells products under the Adonia name, and says it has done so since 2008. Adonia is the name of an ancient festival, so on the face of it the domain is generic. Of course, that hasn’t stopped companies from filing cybersquatting ... read more ...
 
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Luxembourg’s .lu domains can now be sealed for a year in disputes - .Lu provides new lock in case of domain dispute. Country code operators are not required to offer a cybersquatting resolution service, although many adopt some form of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Luxembourg takes a more hands of approach. But starting next month it will implement a locking option to stop a domain from being transferred while in dispute. The lock has an initial one year period and can be extended. Here’s how the registry ... read more ...
Tue 28th May 2013
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Feds Shut Down Digitial Currency Site LibertyReserve & Its 1M Customers & Seizes 5 Domains - The Federal Government today announced they had shut down and indicted the founders and operators of Liberty Reserve, a digital currency operation running out of Costa Rica. The founder of the Liberty Reserve Arthur Budovsky , has been arrested in Spain on money-laundering charges. The Feds allege that the operation was a $6 billion money-laundering scheme. Authorities say the network processed at least 55 million illegal transactions worldwide. The indictment said the company had more than a million ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media wants to heading name for domain name heading insurance service - New TLD applicant files trademark applications fro DPML. Demand Media subsidiary United TLD has filed six trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office related to its proposed Domain Protected Marks List (DPML). Three of the applications are for the full term “Domain Protected Marks List ” and the other three are for “DPML”. The applications were filed on an intent-to-use basis on May 15. The DPML is a service that would let trademark holders ... read more ...
Fri 24th May 2013
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Bloomberg Reports Google Facing New FCC Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads - According to Bloomberg.com, Google is facing a new Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission According to the story the FCC is looking into “into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition” The story goes on to say that the investigation is in the preliminary stage and may not expand into a larger probe “FTC investigators are examining whether Google is using its position in U.S. display ads ... read more ...
Thu 23rd May 2013
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.Home and .Corp are not a usually shabby TLDs that now get queried - They’re not as big, but several applied-for TLD strings get invalid queries. ICANN is investigating internal names used by corporations and how they might conflict with applied-for top level domains. .Home and .Corp are frequently among the top 10 queried invalid top level domains, but they aren’t the only ones. ICANN hosts a page that shows invalid TLD queries. It seems to time out if you expand the timeframe to more than one day, so it’s hard to get a grasp ... read more ...
 
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Ron Paul loses disputes over RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org domain names - Former politician denied relief in dispute over two Ron Paul domain names. [Update: Paul found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in RonPaul.org case.] Ron Paul has lost two separate domain name disputes filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization. The two cases covered RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org, and were part of a public spat between the domain owners, who say they are Ron Paul supporters, and the politician. The owner of RonPaul.com offered to ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Ron Paul found guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Former congressman guilty of reverse domain name hijacking, says WIPO panel. Earlier today I wrote about how Ron Paul lost both of his domain disputes brought before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The disputes were filed against RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org and were both heard by the same arbitration panel under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The panel ruled that in the case of RonPaul.org, former congressman Paul is ... read more ...
 
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Applicants record 722 responses to GAC advice - Applicants flood ICANN with responses to GAC advice on new top level domains. ICANN has published applicant responses to the Governmental Advisory Committees “Advice” on new top level domains. 722 responses were filed in total. Many applicants submitted the same comment on each TLD they believed was affected by the advice. The overarching theme in responses was: we have what we believe are adequate protections for our strings, the GAC should not be concerned, ... read more ...
Wed 22nd May 2013
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Intellectual skill counsel guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Los Angeles attorney who practices trademark law found guilty of abusing UDRP proceedings. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found an intellectual property lawyer guilty of attempting to engage in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking and bringing a UDRP complaint in bad faith in abuse of the administrative proceeding. Los Angeles lawyer Frank Michael Weyer filed the case against the owner of iShades.com. The owner of iShades.com registered ... read more ...
 
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Here’s what ICANN’s house motionless on Saturday - Board passes resolution that might delay certain new TLDs and approves a new UDRP provider. While most of us were hanging with our families or on the golf course this weekend, ICANN’s board was approving a number of resolutions that could have a big affect on some parts of the domain name industry. Here’s what the board decided: Some new TLDs may be delayed or rejected based on internal name conflicts. ICANN is going to further investigate the potential for security ... read more ...
 
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Over 1,000 XBox One domains purebred yesterday - Microsoft’s big product launch followed by a flurry of domain registration activity. Yesterday Microsoft announced its latest video game console called XBox One. Immediately, cybersquatters went to work. Over 1,000 XBox One related domain names were registered in .com alone yesterday. To be sure, some of those registrations were by Microsoft itself. But the vast majority were by other parties hoping to capitalize on the latest video game system in the XBox franchise. Some ... read more ...
Mon 20th May 2013
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Verisign questions ICANN’s minute posting policies - Company suggests ICANN is only posting letters that “will advance its positions”. Verisign has sent a letter to ICANN questioning why it isn’t publishing certain correspondence on the ICANN.org web site. ICANN has a section on its web site where it publishes many letters it receives and sends. But Verisign says ICANN hasn’t published three prior letters the company sent regarding the proposed new domain registry agreement. The company says it is aware of other ... read more ...
Sat 18th May 2013
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Zynga Claims Trademark Rights To “With Friends” - According to Techcrunch,  Zynga who recently launched runningwithfriends.com, and also owns and operates Words With Friends®, Chess With Friends®, Scramble With Friends®, Hanging With Friends™, Matching With Friends™, Gems With Friends™ and Games With Friends®, told the dating website CupidWithFriends that they need to change the site’s name, because it allegedly infringes on Zynga’s trademarks. CupidwithFriends.com gave the C D letter from Zynga to TechCrunch who published it as ... read more ...