Proposal surprises working group members. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) has proposed making Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) a consensus policy that would apply to legacy top level domains such as .com and .net. Uniform Rapid Suspension is a quicker, ... Continue Reading14 Comments
URS Panelist: “Complainant’s business may be worldwide but it is not out of this world”
· Policy & LawUniform Rapid Suspension is designed for cases with an overwhelming evidence of bad faith. This post is part of a series on UDRP issues by the Internet Commerce Association. Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) is a relatively new mechanism for trademark ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
URS is fast and cheap, but…
· Policy & LawYou might not win if the respondent puts up a fight. On the face of it, it seems that the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) system was tailor made for cases like this: virgin-atlantic.cloud. But that doesn't mean you can just phone it in. A National ... Continue Reading2 Comments
A strange thing is happening to domain names suspended in URS
· Policy & Law...they're being renewed. Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was introduced as an alternative to Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (URDP) when new top level domain names were introduced. URS is a faster, cheaper version of UDRP. A big ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Uniform Rapid Suspension by the numbers
· Policy & LawA look at which new top level domain names are getting hit with the most URS cases. Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was introduced along with new top level domains as a sort of faster, cheaper version of UDRP. Companies can make a cybersquatting claim ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Registrant of 4,000+ .email domain names faces mounting legal problems
· Policy & LawYoyo.email claims it registered trademark-matching .email domain names for a legitimate fair use. Most National Arbitration Forum panels have disagreed. You've probably never heard of Yoyo.email before, but it is one of the biggest individual ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Frank Schilling beats IBM in domain dispute
· Policy & LawReserved three letter .link domains won't be suspended. Frank Schilling's North Sound Names, the company under which he registers premium domains in his new TLDs, has defended two such domain names from a URS filed by IBM. IBM filed a Uniform Rapid ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Wolfram wins .CEO URS dispute on second try
· Policy & LawThis time the case computes. Search and data company Wolfram has won a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case for Wolfram.ceo...on the second try. It lost the first case because it filed the case as Wolfram Research, Inc. The panelist noted that the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Wolfram doesn’t use computation in URS dispute
· Policy & LawA lot of brain power missed the connection. Wolfram Research, Inc. has lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case for mathematica.guru and wolfram.ceo, and the case is noteworthy for a couple reasons. First, the domain names were owned by two ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Fortune 1000 company loses 2 URS cases
· Policy & LawHeartland Payment Systems loses claims to "Heartland" domain names. So far the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy for new top level domain names appears to be working. URS was designed to be a faster and cheaper version of UDRP for slam dunk ... Continue Reading7 Comments