Domain Name Dispute Blog

"If your domain name has been registered unlawfully, you have rights. This Web site will help you understand those rights."

Author: Enrico Schaefer practices at Traverse Legal in Traverse City, Mich. He also authors AntiCybersquatting Consumer Protection Act Blog and Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Trademark Law • Internet Law • Solo / Small Firm

Recent Posts from Domain Name Dispute Blog

Changing WHOIS Privacy Protection In Domain Name Dispute Can Be Considered Registration In Bad Faith
An interesting domain dispute has recently come down from WIPO involving a new interpretation of WHOIS privacy protection services and their relation to the “registration in bad faith” UDRP element. The case, BMEzine.com, LLC v.…
Brandjackers increasingly abuse top-ranked pharmaceutical brands via cybersquatting and typosquatting
MarkMonitor Reports Continuing Rise in Online Abuse of Top Drug Brands SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MarkMonitor®, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today released the Summer 2008 Brandjacking Index™, reporting that brandjackers increasingly abuse top-ranked pharmaceutical…
Cybersquatting the Obama-Biden Ticket: Domain investors still don't udnerstand the UDRP and ACPA
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time - Blogs from CNN.com The Obama campaign has succeeded partly through astute, unprecedented use of the Internet. But some of the most obvious Web site domain names…
In Domain Name Disputes, Priority of Registration Will Often Trump Registered Trademark Rights
It isn’t often that a UDRP panel finds that a complainant who owns a registered trademark does not satisfy the first prong of the UDRP’s abusive registration test, namely, that the domain name is “identical…
Celebrity Cybersquatting: Why Don't Famous People Protect Their Domain Names?
Cybersquatter offering threesome with Scarlett Johansson! | Latest News The seemingly fake website isn”t so much of a surprise as the domain that it sits on – scarlettjohansson.com. While the website has an offer that’’s…
Domain Name Dispute Decision: Craigslist.fr UDRP Transfer Order From WIPO
Craiglist.fr WIPO Decision The WIPO UDRP decision regarding craiglist.fr does not hold many surprises. What is semi-interesting is that the decision gives an overview of craiglist.org, which has been in operation since 1997. Needless to…
Law Firm Loses UDRP Domain Dispute Decision Over Use of Drug TRACLEER
K&L Gates : Newsstand : K&L Gates represents pharmaceutical company in precedent-setting WIPO domain name victory On September 10, 2007, a three-member panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) found in favor of ...…
Protecting Your Trademark is Protecting Your Goodwill
Do I Really Need to Worry About my Trademark? Ask eBoost Consulting « The Legal Satyricon eBoost Media and eBoost Consulting are both search engine optimization companies that operate out of California. Same field, same…
Defensive registration of .me domains to prevent cybersquatting
BUY ME DOMAINS: Why should you get your dot me domain? But why should you get your own .me domain if you're very happy with your .com domain already? We'll because of the simple fact…
Google Sued For Offering Low Quality Pay Per Click Ads On Domain Parking Pages
Information Week reports that Google is being sued for fraud, unjust enrichment, and business code violations for its use of “low-quality” ads on parked domain names and error pages. Google’s AdSense for Domains places advertisements…