Group wants to model law after Utah legislation. Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) is pushing to amend the 1999 Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) to include provisions in a 2010 Utah cybersquatting law. Phil Corwin, ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Fairwinds Says Typosquatting Costs $327 million, Based on $2.74 Per Click
· Policy & LawReport makes some lofty estimates for typosquatting. Fairwinds Partners, the group behind Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, released a study today suggesting that typosquatting costs the 250 most visited web sites $327 million per year. Like the ... Continue Reading5 Comments
IP Constituency Distances Itself from CADNA
· Policy & LawLetter insinuates that CADNA does not take a balanced approach to intellectual property rights. The ICANN IP Constituency is distancing itself from the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA). In a letter to ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom, J. Scott ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Hypocrisy.com: How America’s Big Companies are the Biggest Cybersquatters
· Policy & LawA look at how big companies have joined forces to cybersquat and how they justify it. In May 2007, I noticed something curious on a new Gateway desktop computer I purchased. When I mistyped a web address, my browser showed a page full of ads. ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Domain Name Companies Spend $2M Lobbying Washington
· UncategorizedAnalysis shows over $2M spent in first half of year on lobbying. Domain name related companies continue to spend millions of dollars lobbying representatives in Washington, a study by Domain Name Wire shows. The analysis used public records filed with ... Continue Reading6 Comments
ICA Still Strong, But Challenges Remain
· UncategorizedWhat Michael Collins' departure means for Internet Commerce Association. When Michael Collins resigned as Executive Director of Internet Commerce Association last week, I re-read his resignation letter a few times. What did it say about ICA? What is ... Continue Reading3 Comments
2008 Domain Dunce Awards: Verizon
· Policy & LawVerizon likes to play both sides of the fence. For that we give it an award. With just a few days left in 2008, I thought I'd write about a couple of the more egregious stories in domain names this year. Think of it as the dumbest moments in ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Forbes Covers New Top Level Domain Names
· Policy & LawForbes Magazine covers new TLD launch, but has a few inaccuracies. The maintstream media has paid cursory attention to ICANN's opening of the top level domain name landscape. A new article in the November 17 issue of Forbes (available now online) ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Nike and Wells Fargo Join CADNA
· Policy & LawCompanies join associations representing trademark interests. Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, an organization of mostly Fortune 500 companies, announced today that it has two new members and is concerned about changes at ICANN. Nike (NYSE: NKE) ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
ICANN Fee Rule Change Won’t End Domain Tasting, Frontrunning
· Policy & LawICANN's recent rule change will have mixed results. ICANN recently moved a step further to changing how it handles refunds for domain names in conjunction with the registry. Currently, ICANN charges a 20 cent fee per domain name registered. However, ... Continue Reading9 Comments