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Verizon sued OnlineNIC, a San Francisco domain registration company that Verizon claimed had 663 domains designed to confuse Verizon customers. The judge in the lawsuit awarded $33.15 million to Verizon Communications.…
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Cybersquatting in Asia has been increasing as the cost of domain names has decreased. Studies show that the cost of China’s .cn extension has dropped so much that it’s actually encouraging the growth of cybersquatting. Some Registrars offer .cn names for as little as $3 a year.…
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A new nonprofit organization based in Washington D.C. is launching a national campaign to stop the fraudulent abuse of domain registration, which is the basis for cybersquatting. The group claims that cybersquatting is a threat to the future of e-commerce. In recent years the number of cybersquatting disputes that the …
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Microsoft sent notice to many domain owner’s that run websites with trademarked words within their domains. Among the thousands of websites are sites like WindowsLiveTutorial.com and HaloChamp.com. Microsoft claims the websites are earning profits illegally using their trademarks.…
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More than 2 ½ months before the new pope selected his papacy name, Rogers Cadenhead of Florida registered BenedictXVI.com in addition to several other possibilities. Rogers claims that he did not buy the name to profit, but that if he had not purchased it, other cybersquatters would have done so. …
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The newly introduced Anti-cybersquatting Protection Act aims to end cybersquatting on the Internet. The ACPA and UDRP both have goals to help trademark owner’s retrieve domains that infringe on the trademarks, but the ACPA goes on “bad faith”. This means that even if you do not have a trademark (such …
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Writer Jeanette Winterson, author of “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, filed a complaint against cybersquatter Mark Hogarth with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Hogarth ‘kidnapped’ the domain name jeanettewinterson.com, as well as the .net and .org versions. Courts gave Hogarth ten days to turn over all three extensions …
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Mark Hogarth spent a great deal of cash registering the names of famous authors, but he claims his intention was to send the traffic (via affiliate links) to popular book sites like Amazon.com. He says that he now realizes that he may have made a mistake by offering to sell …
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Jaei England had purchased the name cosmopolitan.co.uk in hopes of extorting a few bucks. He even sent a letter to the Cosmopolitan magazine publisher threatening to turn it into a porn site if not ‘paid off’. Now Jaei England will pay £4000 in damages and is likely to lose many …
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The site DodiAlfayed.com was registered by a man from Dayton, Ohio and then almost immediately put up for sale on GreatDomains.com for $500,000. The name Dodi Al Fayed was made famous when Mohamed Al Fayed (nicknamed Dodi) died in the car crash with Princess Diana. The name was registered as …
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The big question on everyone’s mind is whether or not ICANN will expand the top-level domain base. ICANN spokesperson says it will eventually, but has other issues to resolve first. Other questions include, “will anyone with an email address be allowed to vote on certain issues?” and “what will they …
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London’s Police Department was surprised to hear of an IT manager registering domain names based on the term Metropolitan Police. The police department asked for the domains, but the owner, Redwood Wilson, sent replies demanding money to cover his ‘registrations costs’.…
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Dell is suing 17 companies and six individuals for cybersquatting for registering names such as dellbackup.com and dellsolutions.com. Only 15 of the domain name owners are located in the US.…
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Joe Schreiber bought the domain name honda.net to set up a ‘honda fan’ website, but Honda Motor Co. wants the site and has filed a lawsuit to get it. Schreiber was told to take the site down last year and had replied that he wanted reimbursement for the hosting and …
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The New York Yankees files a lawsuit against Brian McKiernan to win their trademarked domain name newyorkyankees.com. McKiernan says he had bought the domain to set up a fan site. The baseball team had offered him $450 for the domain name, which he refused even though he had not indicated …
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A coalition between the national sports leagues is filing a lawsuit (with several more planned) against the owners of such sites as rangers1.com and yankees1.com for trademark infringement. The owner of these domains, Canadian Jeff Burgar, uses the names to sell vanity email addresses.…
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The domain Toys-R-Us.co.uk now hosts a complaint from one of its former customers. Software developer Richard Warr put the site up to demonstrate his local store’s mistreatment of senior citizens. The site contains only two links – one to his email address and one to the actual ToysRUs home page.…
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The House recently passed a bill (one that Clinton promised to veto if it reached his desk) to fine domain name cybersquatters up to $100,000. The bill is attached to a satellite television bill, in hopes that it would pass under the radar. The Clinton administration has said that it …
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This time, the US House of Representative is trying to pass their cybersquatting bill (which proposes a penalty for cybersquatting violators of up to $100,000) under the blanket of a budget bill. The bill is heavily backed by large corporations and the entertainment industry, who claim that people are holding …
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Today the House passed a bill that would protect trademark owners from cybersquatting. However, the bill undermines what the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) calls a freedom to criticize a company’s practices, dubbing it the “Business Criticism Prevention Act.” Criticism of the bill also comes from the Internet Corporation for Assigned …
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The intel-inside.com site, previously run by a cybersquatters as a pornography site which Intel thought would soil their reputation, suddenly had a for-sale sign hung on its front page after Intel threatened to take legal action. When sale efforts failed, the domain name went up for auction on eBay.com, with …
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Since March, the site intel-inside.com published a heavy arrangement of pornographic links and pictures. However, since Intel, the computer chip maker, because aware of the site, the links have been removed and a simple ‘for sale’ sign has appeared there instead. The domain mentions that the current bid is $150,000 …
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IT folks got a shock if they visited intel-inside.com looking to find the latest on Intel Technologies. The domain name was registered by a porn service, though Intel has filed suit claiming damages to their trademark.…
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In a move to speed up the official rules for dealing with cybersquatters, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gave Mike Roberts, the Interim president, 45 days to come up with a committee and propose a procedure to define and deal with the problem.…
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently held a conference in which they voted to endorse plans outlawing cybersquatting. Some critics claim the measures were too harsh and favored larger corporations instead of small businesses.…
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