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Fan blog craigslistblog.org received a letter from the popular classified site Craigslist claiming that it was infringing on their trademark and requesting that they immediately take down the site. While the company did not request that the fan stop blogging, they did request that they turn over the domain and …
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InterActiveCorp, parent company of Ask.com, recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to start-up Askpedia claiming trademark infringement. Its speculated that IAC will pursue legal action after March 23.…
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The new Senate Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act, dubbed the Snowe Bill, will effectively threaten domain Registrants with trademark infringement enforcements that are “more expansive and punitive than the UDRP or trademark law.”…
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Dell, along with its Alienware subsidiary, has filed a civil suit filed in Florida alleging that several Registrars and individuals have profited from domain tasting and typo-squatting domain names that contain their trademarks.
The suit alleges that the companies engaged in domain tasting, registering more than 1,100 typo-squatted domain names …
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The National Arbitration Forum said that they handled 1,658 trademark disputes in 2006, the largest in history of their domain dispute program, and that 21% of those cases were resolved. Overall, the NAF has handled more than 7,600 domain trademark disputes. Even outside of the NAF, domain trademark disputes are …
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Dell has filed suits against three affiliates for profiting off typo-squatted domain names related to their brand.
The three affiliates named in the suit had registered d3ell.com, de3LL.com, d4ell.com, de4ll.com, dedll.com, derll.com and dxell.com, all of which redirected unsuspecting visitors to Dell.com through their affiliate links, which they then profited …
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The Government of New Zealand, who was slow in registering newzealand.com, was instead forced pay $1 million to a US company who had already registered the domain. As the difference between domain names and trademarks blurs, New Zealand claimed the name was trademarked and filed a suit with the World …
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Activist Bill Purdy was ordered in court to turn over copycat URL WPNI.org, which the court deemed similar to WPNI.com, a domain used by Washington Post/Newsweek employees in their email addresses. After ordered to turn over the name, Bill Purdy has continued to register numerous domains. He now faces criminal …
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The Washington Post sued anti-abortion activist Bill Purdy for registering WPNI.org, claiming copycat on the Washington Post url, WPNI.com. The Washington Post domain is used as part of their employee email addresses and they claim that Purdy has snatched email messages intended for their employees as a result.…
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Studies show that the majority of domain trademark disputes favor the trademark holders. The study reviewed more than 3,800 domain disputes through the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, which is an inexpensive alternative to traditional litigation procedures for trademark owner’s seeking resolution of a domain trademark equivalent. While the …
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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reached a landmark decision in a .info trademark infringement case. INT Media Group, owners of the InternetNews.com trademark, sued Spanish entrepreneur Christian Castresana’s use of InternetNews.info. The company claimed that they attempted to register the domain during the .info sunrise, but says the registration …
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eResolution, a domain dispute arbitrator, is leaving the business as customers dwindle. The company claims that an unfair process favors trademark holders and big business over individuals. Because trademark owners and big businesses seek out companies that will lean decisions in their favor, eResolution says it is unable to find …
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A judge ruled that Economic Solutions, a company who owns .bz, does not have the rights to the .biz TLD in a trademark infringement dispute. The company was seeking to ban ICANN from approving the new TLD.…
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Verizon Wireless lawyers registered the domain name VerizonSucks.com to keep company critics from launching an anti-campaign, but they were surprised to find out that the publisher of 2006 had registered the name VerizonReallySucks.com. Verizon issued legal warnings to the site owner, who claims he just wanted to occasionally poke fun …
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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 corporate giants scored another win today when the small software company VirtualWorks lost the domain name VW.net to Volkswagen for cybersquatting. The two companies had battled in court in the past with VirtualWorks winning the rights to the name.…
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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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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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The owner of the domain names BBC1.com and BBC2.com was blocked from selling or transferring domain ownership until the lawsuit from the BBC is settled. The BBC is taking action against anyone using the BBC trademark in their domain names.…
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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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Coca-Cola had issued warnings to the domain name owner of VintageCocaCola.com telling him to relinquish the site. Instead of doing so, the owner removed links to Coca-Cola memorabilia sites and pictures of collections and instead turned it into a discussion board on domain name rights and domain trademark disputes. The …
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Warner Brothers is sending out warnings to any website containing using a domain names with their trademarked ‘Harry Potter’ term within it. No lawsuits have been filed yet.…
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The electronic fax service eFax.com is trying to sue eFax.co.uk for the domain name, even though eFax.co.uk is two years older and has more than twice as many UK subscribers.…
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