Tag Archives: legal

Fri 22nd June 2012
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New ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé doesn’t have his possess name as domain name - FadiChehade.com registered today, but not by new ICANN CEO. ICANN announced this morning that software executive Fadi Chehadé would be its new CEO come October. Naturally, the first thing I did was look up his presence on the web. Here’s his LinkedIn profile. Here’s his domain name, FadiChehade.com. Did you click on his domain name? If so, you noticed he doesn’t own it. It was registered this morning by Theo Geurts. And Geurts says he got the idea from me ... read more ...
Thu 21st June 2012
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Codecademy beats Code Academy in domain dispute - They may know how to code, but they could work on domain name strategy. Here’s an interesting domain name dispute involving hot startup Codecademy. Codecademy, true to its name, helps people learn how to program. The company made quite a splash earlier this year when it got hundreds of thousands of people to “pledge” to learn how to code this year. Among the pledges was New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Although most of the New Years’ resolutions have ... read more ...
Tue 19th June 2012
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MediaSet.com preference reversed, owners can keep domain - MediaSet.com can remain with domain registrant. In April I wrote about how a court had apparently ruled that Italy’s largest broadcaster, MediaSet, had rights to the domain name MediaSet.com. MediaSet is controlled by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. MediaSet had lost a UDRP for the domain name back in February. That case was defended by ESQwire.com. But then MediaSet got a court in Rome to order the domain transferred to MediaSet. The latest decision ... read more ...
 
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ICANN might let new TLD field cgange their applications - Plan may allow new TLD applicants to fix errors. ICANN is considering allowing applicants for new top level domains to make changes to their applications, the organization confirmed to Domain Name Wire today. The group is working on a process that could allow applicants to fix errors in their final applications. Officially: ICANN has received requests for changes to submitted applications. We take these requests very seriously and are working on developing guidelines ... read more ...
Mon 18th June 2012
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Paul Keating somehow wins Taget.com UDRP - Shoddy work by Target’s lawyers may have let domain owner off the hook. Domain attorney Paul Keating has successfully defended Quinv S.A. against Target Brands and a UDRP it filed over Taget.com. Now, first things first: Taget.com isn’t necessarily a typo of Target.com. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to own this domain and ways you can use it without running afoul of cybersquatting rules. But Target claimed the domain forwarded through a series of URLs ... read more ...
 
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A few tips to ICANN’s new CEO - Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Congratulations! On Friday, ICANN will announce you as its new Chief Executive Officer. This is a pretty good gig. You’ll earn about a million bucks a year, which isn’t bad for a non-profit CEO. (That’s what the outgoing CEO earned. I assume you negotiated well.) But you have your work cut out for you. The past, I don’t know, entirety of ICANN hasn’t exactly been rosy for the CEO. Now, before Friday comes around ... read more ...
Fri 15th June 2012
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Guy files cybersquatting censure opposite a page on Blogger - Apparently blogger.com followed by a bunch of numbers infringes this guy’s trademarks. From the WTF category… Nevada resident Steven Barket has filed a federal lawsuit against Google and a John Doe, claiming violations of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and Lanham Act. The offending domain name that violates Barket’s trademarks? blogger.com/profile/10034500688963114971 Yes, that’s a single page on the Blogger.com domain. Barket demands a judgement ... read more ...
 
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Catholics won’t be means to register .Catholic domain names - No personal second level domains will be allowed for .catholic. If you’re a follower of the Catholic faith and can’t wait to get your hands on yourname.catholic, I’ve got disappointing news for you: it’s not going to happen. The Pontifical Council for Social Communications (PCCS), the applicant for .catholic, plans to run the domain name in a closed manner similar to .gov. Its application states: …individual adherents will not be eligible to register or ... read more ...
 
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Honey, we screwed adult on my $185,000 new TLD application - Several new top level domain applicants make errors in their applications — including a misspelling of the word “logistics”. I’ve found three instances of typo’s or errors in new top level domain applicants’ strings. I’ve reached out to ICANN to find out if the applicants will be afforded an opportunity to fix these errors as I can’t find anything in the guidebook about it. Logic would say yes in the case of an uncontested string. One obvious typo ... read more ...
 
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About 100 ANA members request for new tip turn domains - Around 20% of Association of National Advertisers members applied for new TLDs, but many may have been defensive. One of the most outspoken — and tardy — groups to lobby against ICANN’s expansion of the internet namespace was Association of National Advertisers (ANA). The group lists close to 500 members on its web site, and it appears that around 100 of them ended up applying for new top level domains. (I count 92, but it’s very hard to get this precise ... read more ...
Thu 14th June 2012
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ICANN: .WeScrewedUpAgain - Group publishes private details of new top level domain applicants. During the ICANN press conference on Wednesday a reporter stood up and asked if ICANN had told applicants that their email addresses and phone numbers would be published. Yes, was the response. Something to the tune of “we told everyone this would be an open process”. But only some of this information was to be published. Certainly not the home addresses of the applicants, which apparently were ... read more ...
 
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Amazon.com won’t offer domain names to a public - Amazon.com intends to only offer domain registrations to itself. Amazon.com has applied for 76 top level domain names. But don’t expect to be able to register any second level domains underneath them. I just reviewed eight of the company’s applications, and each one has similar language explaining who can register a second level domain under them: only Amazon.com and its subsidiaries. …Amazon and its subsidiaries will be the only eligible registrants… Now ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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These village TLD applications are a finish joke - Be ready to prove you’re part of the .shop community if you want to register a .shop domain. One of the biggest problems I’ve had with the new TLD applicant guidebook is preference given to applications representing a so-called community. This is ripe for gaming. Consider these applications that say they are representing a “community”: .Music – .music LLC from Far Further and CGR E-Commerce LTD .eco from Big Room Inc. .Shop from Commercial Connect and GMO ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry to offer singular heading retard opposite all the tip turn domains - Uniregistry tries a different approach. Frank Schilling is definitely trying to shake things up with his new TLD play Uniregistry. Here are some interesting sections of his applications: On defensive registrations: “Our financial projections do not include, expect, nor rely upon an assumed profit from defensive registrations… …Brand owners who are not interested in using the TLD should not be charged a premium nor risk implicitly threatened consequences of non-registration. ... read more ...
Tue 12th June 2012
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Facebook gets FacebookOfSex.pro domain name - Social network registers two Facebook sex domains. Last year Facebook sued FriendFinder Networks over its FacebookOfSex.com web site, ultimately resulting in a transfer of the domain name to Facebook. Now the company has registered two similar domains, FacebookOfSex.pro and Facebooksex.pro. The two domains were previously owned by a registrant called “Netud” in France. You may be asking yourself, isn’t .pro for professionals only? I guess you weren’t aware ... read more ...
 
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High trade Google typo oogle.com strike with UDRP - Complaint filed against domain that sends traffic to survey and adult sites. A complaint has been filed with National Arbitration Forum over the high traffic domain name oogle.com. National Arbitration Forum does not disclose the name of complainants until a case is decided, but you can bet good money that Google filed the dispute. A poster on domain forum DNForum in April claimed that the site received 450,000+ unique visitors a month, undoubtedly from people who ... read more ...
Mon 11th June 2012
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ICANN pays tighten to $1 million for CEO in 2011. Here’s remuneration for 18 other ICANN employees. - Rod Beckstrom’s total compensation and benefits nearly $1 million last fiscal year; many other highly paid employees at non-profit. ICANN has published its Form 990 tax return for the financial year ending June, 2011. Here’s what top employees earned (including non-taxable benefits): Rod Beckstrom, CEO $998,230 Akram Atallah, COO $133,812 Doug Brent, COO $348,628 John Jeffrey General Counsel Secretary $338,475 Kurt Pritz, SVP Services $399,747 Kevin Wilson, CFO ... read more ...
Fri 8th June 2012
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Instrumentation Northwest should ask the counsel for the income back - It just wasted money filing a frivolous complaint over INW.com. The results are in on Instrumentation Northwest’s case against Nat Cohen’s Telepathy for the domain INW.com. No surprise here. With the help of domain attorney Ari Goldberger, Telepathy won the case. But the complainant should really ask its lawyer to give back whatever he or she charged to represent it. This case was dead from the beginning, and any good lawyer would have told their client this. ... read more ...
Thu 7th June 2012
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Owner Of LegalSupply.com Appeals UDRP Loss To eLegalSupply.com - Kevin Daste the owner of the domain name LegalSupply.com has appealed the UDRP decision in which the panel awarded the domain name over to eLegalSupply.com The case was filed in the Louisiana Eastern Federal District Court. The case is Daste v. Elegalsupply.com LLC We called out the panel for what we thought was a bad decision and its good to see the domain owner appeal the decision. The complaint asks the court for a declaratory judgment that Plaintiff’s registration and use of the domain name ... read more ...
 
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Apple wins aplestore.com, a initial UDRP feat of a year - Apple wins its first domain arbitration case of the year. Apple has won a dispute over the domain name aplestore.com as a World Intellectual Property Organization panel ordered the domain name transferred to the iPhone maker. The typo of AppleStore.com was registered to a man in Poland and forwarded to a parked page full of ads. This is the first case Apple has won under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) this year. But several other cases were ... read more ...
 
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Fate of new TLD sequence dynamic by click of a symbol and location - ICANN reveals more details about its digital archery game. The smart money would have set up their registry in Africa… ICANN has provided more details about its so-called digital archery solution that will determine in which batch a new TLD application will be evaluated. Digital archery involves setting a target time and then clicking a button as close to the target time as possible. With close to 2,000 applications, but many of them duplicates, we’re probably ... read more ...
Wed 6th June 2012
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An engaging UDRP preference opposite a critique site - Dar Al-Arkan gets a domain, but doesn’t solve its problem. So-called gripe sites, which are critical of a company or person, are handled differently by various UDRP panels. A recent case brought by Saudi Arabia’s Dar Al-Arkan Real Estate Development Company is a case in point. Dar Al-Arkan filed the complaint against the owner of daralarkan-crisis.com. The owner of the site makes a number of allegations against the company and publishes what Dar Al-Arkan says ... read more ...
 
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Chicago.com relates for dotchicago trademark - …but didn’t apply for the top level domain. Chicago.com, Inc., has filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for the DotChicago mark. But Chicago.com founder Josh Metnick says his company did not apply for the top level domain .Chicago with ICANN. The application, filed May 31, states that the mark is for “Domain name registration services; Domain name registration services, namely, conducting domain name searches for the purpose ... read more ...
Mon 4th June 2012
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Wow: new TLD conflict already hits UDRP - Complaint filed against a .med backer. Here’s an interesting UDRP case that attacks an applicant for the .med top domain name. The domains in this dispute are aboutdotmed.com, supportdotmed.com, and thedotmed.com. The complaint was filed by DotMed.com, Inc. I wrote about DotMed.com back in January when I revealed 115 trademark applications for potential top level domains. The respondent is HEXAP, which is working with AFNIC to secure the .med domain name. What ... read more ...
 
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Angie’s List sues ServiceMagic over Google ads - Company sues lead generation firm over competitive AdWords ads. Angie’s List (NASDAQ: ANGI), the subscription based service to find contractors, has filed a lawsuit against lead generation company ServiceMagic over ads it purchased on Google Adwords. According to the complaint, ServiceMagic is buying Google AdWords ads for the term “Angie’s List”. Here’s an ad I saw when searching today. Angie’s List is on top, followed by a witty ad from ServiceMagic: The ... read more ...