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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 ...
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.
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....
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...
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.
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
DomainFest 2012 Live | Mark As Read |
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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'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.
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