The Wall Street Journal has very interesting article on the value of numeric domain names titled What?s In a Name? More and More, a Number Despite Limited Success of Digits, a Numeric Trend Blossoms in Internet Domain Monikers; 10012.com, Anyone?...

Domainfight.net provides the following returns for ?Pluto Domain Services? as a respondent in UDRP arbitrations. There is no question that Pluto Domain Services is a habitual cybersquatter under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. Note the bancopopularpr.com decision specifically...

There has been significant commentary recently on bulletin boards and within the domainer community about Microsoft Corporation's stepped-up online brand protection efforts. Microsoft has been aggressively pursuing any and all domain registrants who have registered domains incorporating any of the...

Are you wondering what Oversee's President Jeff Kupietzky's thinks the opportunities are in this down domain name market? Here is a audio clip of his opening remarks live from DOMAINfest in Hollywood, California. (transcript to follow). Traverse Legla Radio Play...

DN Journal just noted that WIPO disputes have continued to increase over the past five years, linking to an article at pingdom.com. Pingdom notes that domain disputes have doubled since 2003 and that the United States is the origin of...

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The recent Chillibeans.com panel decision raises some interesting questions. Not apparent in the decision is the fact that the trademark alleged by the complainant is the subject of a cancellation proceeding at the OAIM, Trademark and Design Registration Office of...

There has been some commentary about the recent Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) decision against white hat domainer Frank Schilling's regarding the chillibeans.com domain. For those who have been paying attention, this decision is not so surprising. Rather...

Have you implemented a domain name strategy? Many established businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups fail to account for their use of domain names in their general business planning. A comprehensive and effective domain name strategy can often boost profits and extend...

Registrations for second-level .cm country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) are now in full swing. These second-level ccTLDs include .com.cm, .net.cm, and .co.cm. Registrations began on October 15 through NETCOM, located at http://www.netcom.cm. The .cm domain name suffix, which is...

Trademark holders will soon be given an opportunity to register their business contact information when the new .tel top-level domain sunset registration period begins in December. The new .tel top-level domain has been said to provide a secure method for...

Did you ever want to search both WIPO and NAF cybersquatting decisions without having to access each provider's UDRP search tools? DomainFight.net solves this problem by searching all cybersquatting panel decisions from both WIPO and NAF from a single search...

Domain Name Wire has a great article titled Web Designers Holding Domain Names Hostage. This is an issue our domain name dispute lawyers see all the time. The moment there is any sort of fee dispute, the web developer begins...

Traverse Legal is proud to sponsor the radio interview of Owen Frager, the Chief Innovation Officer of the Frager Creative Group (pdf) & author of the blog "The Frager Factor." Owen is a domain marketing legend, whose statue within the...

A company called USpeakWeType Technologies purchased dnhour.com from Koay Al Vin for $3,200 at the SEDO auction which concluded two weeks ago. USpeak also owns overflowlegal.com, another Digg-Style site for law. The domain name itself - dnhour -was not worth...

As if the tragedy were not enough for the responsible party, it appears cybersquatters immediately prey upon the publicity that surrounds a mass accident. Case in point, the recent Metrolink train accident that caused several deaths and numerous injuries has...

UDRP Decision Discusses Privacy Services and Bad Faith ? The Legal Satyricon The majority of the Panel also finds that the use of a privacy shield in this case further supports its finding of bad faith registration. Although privacy shields...

Alex Tajirian has an interesting post on CircleID about an issue which is getting lots of attention over the last 24 hours. Andrew Allemann wrote an editorial yesterdaytitled "How the Domain Industry Can Clean Itself Up" which we followed up...

Domain Name Wire has a great post noting that Domainers often want to have it both ways. They 'cry foul' about the fact that many people see the business model of domain monetization, and especially parking pages, as unsavory. Domainers...

This piece recently aired at MSNBC, which included quotes from Kyle Monson from PC Magazine. Web domain taken? Sowhatsleft.com? Mr. Moson essentially states that all domainers are cybersquatters. This parked considerable debate on Mr. Moson's blog at a post Cybersquatting...

Parking pages remain under attack from advertisers as another lawsuit is filed against Google by one of its AdWords advertisers. It is unclear why this particular advertiser did not simply change their campaign settings to exclude the content network. In...

A recent reverse domain hijacking decision in Collective Media, Inc. v. CKV / COLLECTIVEMEDIA.COM is interesting to any lawyer who practices domain dispute law. The law firm bringing the Complaint Lowenstein Sandler PC advertises as a large law firm specializing...

The following news story has been posted without confirmation. Even so, how long will it be before Google and Yahoo eliminate certain domains from its network in order to get click fraud under control. At the recent T.R.A.F.F.I.C Conference in...

Many business people would be surprised to learn that there is something akin to a ?securities? aftermarket for domain names. Investment groups are formed to pool money in order to buy a portfolio of domain names. Third parties are buying...

auDA > auDRP > auDRP Providers auDA does not handle auDRP complaints. Complaints under the policy may be submitted to any auDA approved dispute resolution service provider (listed below in alphabetical order). Complaints are determined by a panel (single- or...

Builder.au reports that LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, has joined an increasing number of companies that have sought to register their trademarks on the Australian (.au) ccTLD. Several months ago LinkedIn contacted Australian marketing firm Clear Blue Day,...

Our friend Sahar Sarid over at Conceptualist.com has a great post about valuing a domain name. Sahar points out that the sale price of a domain name should not only reflect the value of the domain, but also the costs...

Seemingly generic domain names can often turn into a trademark nightmare when used in combination with pay per click parking pages. A recent proceeding in front of the World Intellectual Property Organization demonstrates that a registrant?s inability to control these...

We all know the formal definition of cybersquatting under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). But in the blogosphere, people use the word cybersquatting to mean a variety of different things. The good...

Cybersquatting in Narnia | click to remove In September of 2006 Richard Saville-Smith paid 70 pounds for the domain Narnia.mobi. He hoped to save the domain until the release of the second Narnia film. Then he would give it to...

Geodomains are all the buzz. But of course, everyone?s talking about how to get great content on their geodomain. One of my good friends, Andy McFarlane, has been at this since about 1989 and owns leelanau.com and the ultimate developed...

Parking companies are handcuffed in many ways by their relationship with Google and Yahoo, who essentially control the framework by which ads are shown on parking pages. Parking companies, however, now appear to realize the necessity of working with Google...

Last week, computer hackers gained access and control of Comcast?s domain management system hosted by Network Solutions. The hackers took control over Comcast?s homepage and webmail for nearly five hours before they could regain control. Article by Kevin Poulsen, Wired.com:...

There is a lot of talk on domainer blogs about developing domains. With PPC revenue down and the tremendous amount of uncertainty surrounding parking pages, domainers are now developing their most valuable domains using a variety of techniques. One tremendous...

For years, domainers have been, from their perspective, abused and persecuted by trademark law and holders of trademark rights. Even a one word descriptive domain such as ?apple? can, as we all know, have trademark rights. With all the talk...