Company systematic to compensate $5,000 after retreat domain name hijacking charge -
Panel believe complainant was trying to use arbitration as a “short cut” to acquire domain.
Domain name attorney Zak Muscovitch has helped the owner of ClevelandCyclewerks.ca save his domain name in a cybersquatting arbitration case. Not only that, but the arbitration panel found the complainant guilty of reverse domain name hijacking and ordered it to pay $5,000.
.ca disputes are subject to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority Domain Name Dispute Resolution ... read more ...
Tag Archives: zak muscovitch
Wed 12th June 2013
Wed 21st November 2012
Panel Tells GTMS to GTFO with RDNH -
GTFO, that’s RDNH!
A World Intellectual Property Organization National Arbitration Forum panel has found satellite services company Global Transmission Media Solutions (GTMS) guilty of reverse domain name hijacking.
GTMS filed a UDRP on the domain name GTMS.com, which was registered in 1999. That’s well before GTMS’ purported first use of the acronym as a brand.
GTMS suggested that the domain owner’s non-use of the GTMS.com and two other domains he owned (which ... read more ...
Mon 30th August 2010
Muscovitch: Canadian ccTLD Registry Rules in Need of an Overhaul -
by Zak Muscovitch
[In this guest article, Zak Muscovitch argues that the .ca domain name needs to be liberalized. Muscovitch is a domain attorney who is running for a seat on CIRA’s 2010 Board of Directors. -Andrew]
While many countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and India, have opened up their ccTLD registries to foreigners, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (“CIRAâ€) has been stuck with the same closed-door policy since it enacted ... read more ...