NameBee is your source for Blog Aggregation in the Domain Name industry

Traverse Legal

View This Blog Frequency: 0.0 posts / day

 

Political Cybersquatting: Politician Domain Names Getting Big Money But Why?

 Mark As Read    

As a politician, are you faced with the question of whether it would be easier to just pay the high price to quickly obtain such domain name, especially if a political election is on the horizon, than trying to obtain the domain with a court proceeding? Depending on the details and the parties involved, a political cybersquatting domain name issue ...

Traverse Legal 3241 days ago

The Cost of Protecting Your Brand and Domains

 Mark As Read    

If a company wants to protect their brand, they may have to consider paying the price of $2,499 in order to register .sucks in their own name to prevent the domain from being registered and inappropriately used by others.

Traverse Legal 3285 days ago

What To Do When You Do Not Own the Domain Name That Corresponds To Your Trademark?

 Mark As Read    

How can I get the domain name that matches my trademark? Domain names rights are on a first come, first serve basis. An experienced domain name attorney will be able to answer the question after analyzing both your trademark rights and the domain name registration and use in order to determine whether or not the requisite bad faith intent exists....

Traverse Legal 3319 days ago

Cybersquatting Personal Names

 Mark As Read    

Cybersquatting is the registration, use or trafficking in a domain name that incorporates the trademark of another with a bad faith intent to profit. You have to first register and/or use a domain name, it needs to include a trademark or, in some instances, a personal name or other identifying information of another person and you need to do it wi...

Traverse Legal 3541 days ago

The Next Generation of the Internet

 Mark As Read    

Radio interview with Jennifer Wolfe, Managing Director of Wolfe Domain on the next generation of internet domain names.

Traverse Legal 3559 days ago

How Do I Obtain A Domain Name That Matches My Trademark?

 Mark As Read    

If you are looking to obtain a domain name that matches your trademark, you have to ask yourself several questions. The first is whether or not the person who has the domain name is intentionally violating your trademark. If the...

Traverse Legal 3799 days ago

Domain Registration of A Baby Name

 Mark As Read    

With the recent birth of Prince George, the future King of England, domain name registration and cybersquatting considerations have been thrust into the media. The domain name, GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com was registered by a Portuguese domain name broker according to reports online....

Traverse Legal 3832 days ago

Wondering About the New gTLD Legal Right Objection?

 Mark As Read    

The legal rights objections filed by a number of applicants for new gTLD's are starting to come in. WIPO has posted a number of decisions concerning legal rights objections on new gTLD's over the past two weeks. More decisions should...

Traverse Legal 3901 days ago

Reverse Domain Hijacking Decisions

 Mark As Read    

As the years pass and the number of (UDRP) Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy arbitrations occur, more and more decisions are addressing reverse domain hijacking. Put simply, reverse domain hijacking occurs when a complainant uses the policy in bad...

Traverse Legal 3912 days ago

UDRP Involving Web Developer Dispute

 Mark As Read    

The National Arbitration Forum recently issued a decision on June 24th, 2013 that involved what we have seen to be a fairly regular factual dispute. In particular, the complainant had retained a web developer to create its website. When the...

Traverse Legal 3913 days ago

Overdrive, Inc. Found Liable For Cybersquatting: Plaintiff Awarded $74,500.00 Plus Reasonable Attorney Fees

 Mark As Read    

On January 10, 2013, Judgment was entered in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division against Defendant Overdrive, Inc.for the amount of $74,500.00 plus costs and reasonable attorney fees.

Traverse Legal 4019 days ago

Overdrive, Inc. Found Liable For Cybersquatting: Plaintiff Awarded $74,500.00 Plus Reasonable Attorney Fees

 Mark As Read    

Traverse Legal cybersquatting law attorneys obtained judgment on behalf of their client against full-service digital distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, music and video company Overdrive, Inc. for cyber-piracy (aka cybersquatting) and breach of contract. On January 10, 2013, Judgment was entered...

Traverse Legal 4019 days ago

UDRP Complaints on Hotel Names Continue to Rise

 Mark As Read    

As an attorney who represents a number of hotel and resort chains around the world on UDRP and cybersquatting matters, I see hotel names as one of the primary areas of cybersquatting on the internet. Because of the number of...

Traverse Legal 4024 days ago

Can I Recover a Lost Domain Name for My Business?

 Mark As Read    

Can I recover a lost domain name for my business? As a domain name lawyer, I hear this kind of question all the time from small businesses to large companies, from Internet startup companies and venture backed capital companies all...

Traverse Legal 4048 days ago

Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

 Mark As Read    

When you file a WIPO or NAF UDRP proceeding, you need to make sure you know what you're doing as the trademark holder or complainant. Just because you want a domain which someone won't sell to you, does not mean...

Traverse Legal 4061 days ago

What Happens after a UDRP?

 Mark As Read    

A UDRP is an arbitration under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Process and Policy that allows someone to file a complaint with an arbitration forum, usually WIPO or NAF, and get a decision usually within 30 to 45 days. As part...

Traverse Legal 4236 days ago

The Best Evidence of Bad Faith Intent to Profit when Proving a Violation of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act

 Mark As Read    

The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act or ACPA defines cybersquatting in a very loose way, and in order to be found guilty of unlawful cybersquatting, in order that they show that you've engaged in bad faith cybersquatting with a bad faith...

Traverse Legal 4259 days ago

Domain Name Squatting: Beware The Trademarks

 Mark As Read    

Domain name squatting is unlawful under both the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, or UDRP, as well as the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, known as the ACPA. And domain name squatting has serious consequences. Because it is a form...

Traverse Legal 4263 days ago

How to Defend Against a Claim of Cybersquatting: Litigation Stories from the Jury Box

 Mark As Read    

So, you've been accused of cybersquatting under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. You've received a trademark infringement and cybersquatting threat letter from a trademark owner saying that you've engaged in bad faith cybersquatting. The trademark owner has a registered trademark...

Traverse Legal 4270 days ago

South African Man Wins Domain Name Dispute Over Generic Two Letter Domain Name

 Mark As Read    

Traverse Legal helped the website owner/registrant of the disputed domain name, va.co.za, to win a domain name dispute on appeal in a South African court. After initially suffering an adverse decision by the Adjudicator, the website owner prevailed on appeal...

Traverse Legal 4287 days ago

New gTLD Application Thoughts: The difference maker will be Google

 Mark As Read    

The new gTLD applications are in and those of us in the Internet log, domain name space have been thinking about the new gTLD process for years. ICANN has talked about the new gTLD process for years, and finally we...

Traverse Legal 4297 days ago

The Auction for New gTLD Applications

 Mark As Read    

If you go through the list, there is a large number of applications which are going to end up in the gTLD auction process where these TLD applicants are going to have to bid against each other potentially if they...

Traverse Legal 4297 days ago

How to Oppose a New gTLD Application

 Mark As Read    

ICANN has greatly expanded the number of top level domains that are going to be available as registries for people to potentially register domains on. And they have just issued their list of new gTLD registry applications that have been...

Traverse Legal 4297 days ago

What to Do When a Domain Name Lease Goes Wrong

 Mark As Read    

Well, the first thing I want to point out is when a domain name lease agreement is put together, which essentially allows a domain name owner or registrant to, for a certain period of time and under certain terms and...

Traverse Legal 4300 days ago

What is Reverse Domain Hijacking?

 Mark As Read    

The first way is, under United States law, the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, also known as the ACPA, allows for somebody to file a complaint, and if they can successfully establish that they have trademark rights in a domain name,...

Traverse Legal 4318 days ago

New gTLD Trademark Clearinghouse - How To Protect Your Trademarks.

 Mark As Read    

The Trademark Clearinghouse concept is an important part of the new gTLD roll-out. The trademark clearinghouse will be available for new gTLD registries to support pre-launch Sunrise or Trademark Claims Services. Each new gTLD though wil have some leelway regarding...

Traverse Legal 4318 days ago

Domain Name Theft versus Cybersquatting

 Mark As Read    

Welcome to Domain Name Law Radio. Domain names are valuable assets. Domain disputes, domain theft, cybersquatting, and domain monetization are important issues. Our domain lawyers have answers to your domain name questions. This is Domain Name Attorney Brian Hall with...

Traverse Legal 4383 days ago

Cybersquatting Whitney Houston: Celebrity Cybersquatting Is Never as Profitable as When The Famous Person Dies

 Mark As Read    

Stealing Whitney's Houston's legacy web traffic: Cybersquatting is when you register someones trademark, company name, brand or personal name withe the bad faith intent to profit from their mark or fame. Many cybersquatters register typographical variations of the persons trademark...

Traverse Legal 4428 days ago

DomainFest 2012 Live

 Mark As Read    

<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=vie waltcast/altcast_code=ff030118cf" _mce_href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/tas k=viewaltcast/altcast_code=ff030118cf" >DomainFest 2012 Live Coverage</a>

Traverse Legal 4440 days ago

What Factors Affect a Consumer?s View of Whether a Domain Name is Reputable, and thus Worth Much More Money?

 Mark As Read    

In the paper embedded into this post ?Domain Bias in Web Search,? several Microsoft employees and Stanford University researchers seek to establish definitively that a ?domain bias? exists on the internet wherein consumers, irrespective of all other factors, will click...

Traverse Legal 4483 days ago

Contributory Cybersquatting under the Anitcybersquatting Consumer Protection Act

 Mark As Read    

Welcome to Cybersquatting Law Radio. My name is Attorney Enrico Schaefer, and I specialize in cybersquatting issues, domain disputes, and domain theft. Today, we are talking about contributory cybersquatting under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. Play: Contributory Cybersquatting under the...

Traverse Legal 4484 days ago

To Defensively Register Domain Names or Not? - A .XXX Example

 Mark As Read    

Some universities in Michigan chose to defensively register .xxx domain names in order to protect their brand. Some did not, choosing instead to actively monitor their trademarks and brand online. The Detroit Free Press domain name article highlights the choice...

Traverse Legal 4492 days ago

Trademark Owners Defensive Registration of .XXX Domains

 Mark As Read    

Domain name disputes will certainly increase as the rollout of .XXX continues forward. There has been significant controversy about whether companies with registered trademarks should be defensively precluding registration of their brand names during the .XXX Sunrise period. Our internet...

Traverse Legal 4492 days ago

Lawsuit Filed by Porn Industry against ICANN Over .XXX

 Mark As Read    

Domain name disputes typically occur between trademark owners and domain name registrants over allegations of cybersquatting or between trademark owners and website developers, employees, partners over domain name theft and hijacking. And this first of its kind litigation case, the...

Traverse Legal 4514 days ago

Facebook Trademark Infringement Continues To Be A Problem

 Mark As Read    

Trademark infringement on Facebook and Twitter continue to grow as problems for trademark owners. Companies who fail to get on the social media juggernaut are now realizing that their company name, brand name or slogan may already have been registered...

Traverse Legal 4515 days ago

UDRP Filed on 3-Letter Domain

 Mark As Read    

In a recent Domain Name Wire report, Wireless company, Shenzhen AEE Technology Co., has filed a UDRP proceeded for the domain name AEE.com. The historical Whois information suggests that the owner, Shenzhen AEE Technology Co. had the domain registered and...

Traverse Legal 4524 days ago

Cybersquatting Claims: Defending Allegations of Domain Name and Trademark Cybersquatting

 Mark As Read    

You have been accused by threat letter, lawsuit or UDRP complaint of engaging in trademark cybersquatting. The penalties for cybersquatting can be serious. Statutory damages can be awarded under the Anti Cybersquatting Piracy Act (ACPA). A Uniform Domain Name Dispute...

Traverse Legal 4539 days ago

Domain Name Disputes Come In Many Flavors

 Mark As Read    

Domain name disputes continue to become more common: As an internet law attorney specializing in domain name issues, I am always struck by the wide variety of domain name issues which come through our law firm front door. While cybersquatting...

Traverse Legal 4570 days ago

Massive Facebook Cybersquatting Lawsuit Fails to Stop Bidding on Facebopok.com

 Mark As Read    

Cybersquatting lawsuit not enough to protect typo domain: Despite Facebook?s cybersquatting lawsuit effort, the typo domain Facebopok.com sold for $1,999 on SnapNames.com, according to TheDomains.com. Facebopok.com forwards to f-questionnaire.com, which is clearly a counterfeit site using the same colors, font...

Traverse Legal 4581 days ago

Report Domain Theft: The First Stolen Domain Name Database on the Internet

 Mark As Read    

Domain Theft and Stolen Domain Name Update: Domain theft has been around since the first domain names were registered at the very beginning of the internet. A domain name can be stolen in a variety of ways. A domain thief...

Traverse Legal 4591 days ago

Facebook Files Cybersquatting Lawsuit Regarding 104 Typographical Variations of Facebook.com

 Mark As Read    

Typosquatting is one of the most nefarious forms of cybersquatting. Companies continue to struggle with the sheer volume of domain names registered by cybersquatters which incorporate all or part of their registered trademarks. Facebook, which has not been particularly aggressive...

Traverse Legal 4626 days ago

Comic Book Company Recovers Stolen Domain Name

 Mark As Read    

Superman recovers stolen domain name from cybersquatter: As reported by The Register last week, DC Comics successfully recovered the domain name manofsteel.com in a decision handed down by the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) under the UDRP. DC Comics has owned...

Traverse Legal 4627 days ago

Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Leads to Monetary Penalty

 Mark As Read    

Reverse domain name name hijacking is typically a term used by domain name attorneys in domain name threat letters and responses to domain name threat letters. Reverse domain hijacking refers to a an entity's attempts to secure a domain name...

Traverse Legal 4747 days ago

The U.S. Government Seizes Domain Names Suspected of Online Piracy, Copyright and Trademark Violations

 Mark As Read    

Over 70 websites suspected of copyright and trademark infringement violations, the sale of counterfeit goods and illegally shared media content have been shut down by The Department of Homeland Security, with the cooperation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names...

Traverse Legal 4775 days ago

Federal Judge Tells Habitual Cybersquatter Gillece To Stop Cybersquatting

 Mark As Read    

Cybersquatting and Domain Name Dispute Update: Judge Tells Gillece To Stop Cybersquatting - Pittsburgh-Area Plumber Must Stop Internet Redirection Federal judge orders habitual cybersquatter, Gillece Services, to stop cybersquatting on its competitors. Gillece Services is a plumbing, heating, cooling and...

Traverse Legal 4788 days ago

Cybersquatting Ford's F-150 Trademark

 Mark As Read    

Ferrari sued for trademark infringement: Detroit News: Ford Motor Co. sues Ferrari in U.S. Federal Court for cybersquatting and trademark infringement for using its famous F-150 trademark. Ford filed the lawsuit after Ferrari named its new Formula 1 racing car...

Traverse Legal 4794 days ago

Cybersquatting .CO Domain Names: ClickBank Files Complaint to Get Clickbank.co

 Mark As Read    

The payment processing company Click Sales Inc., which operates the poplular service and domain name ClickBank.com, filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPO) in order to obtain the .CO ccTLD. The Clickbank.co domain name is currently registered...

Traverse Legal 4802 days ago

Day Two Highlights from DOMAINfest 2011, brought to you by Traverse Legal

 Mark As Read    

Day Two at DOMAINfest 2011 included a presentation by Jay Berkowitz, author of the Ten Golden Rules of Online Marketing and panel discussions covering the acquisition and monetization of traffic using local, mobile, social & video, and opportunities in ccTLDs,...

Traverse Legal 4803 days ago

Live Coverage from Traverse Legal at DOMAINfest 2011 - Day One Highlights

 Mark As Read    

Day one at DOMAINfest 2011 kicked off with a Frank Schilling moderated panel discussion among industry experts Jeff Bartlett, Howard Hoffman, Jamie MacMillan and Joerg Schnermann, presentations by comScore Search Evangalist Eli Goodman and Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky, and a...

Traverse Legal 4804 days ago

Traverse Legal's Live Coverage from Domain Fest 2011

 Mark As Read    

Check out Traverse Legal's live coverage of DOMAINfest 2011 held February 1-3 in Santa Monica, CA by founding partner Enrico Schaefer and attorney John Di Giacomo.

Traverse Legal 4805 days ago
Domain Name
NameBright
Welcome!
NameBee aggregates blogs for the Domain Name industry.
Custom Feeds
Add any RSS feed to the information you read daily.
Blocked Feeds
Block feeds to remove blogs you’re not interested in.
Account Settings
Customize the site by adding or removing feeds.

About Us

NameBee is your source for all your Domain Name news.

Have a Suggestion for Us?
Know of a Domain Name blog that we're missing? Let us know!



Share NameBee.com