Company neglected to inform panel about its attempts to buy the domain name. A UDRP panel has found that real estate management company Leumas Residential, LLC tried to reverse domain name hijack leumas.com. Leumas Residential sent many emails ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Top level domain operator wants out of the business
· Policy & LawHere's a first: a non-brand TLD operator voluntarily terminating its contract. For the first time, an operator of a new top level domain that didn't apply as a brand owner has voluntarily told ICANN it wants to terminate its contract. While ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Judge issues orders in eth .link dispute: ENS can transfer domain
· Policy & LawJudge issues orders on many outstanding motions. The judge overseeing a dispute over eth.link issued a number of orders (pdf) today. Here's the back story: Virgil Griffith registered eth.link for use as a resolving service for .eth domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
AKU.com transferred in questionable cybersquatting dispute
· Policy & LawShoe retailer gains a valuable domain through a questionable decision. What does it take for a three letter trademark to be well known and famous? We have a new low bar. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ordered the domain ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Who defrauded VPN.com?
· Policy & LawDefendant in lawsuit says his email was hacked. Someone duped domain name brokerage VPN.com out of $250,000. But whodunit? VPN.com sued "George Dikian," a pseudonymous domain investor, last year claiming that he had defrauded VPN.com. In the lawsuit, ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Healthyr, LLC tries reverse domain name hijacking
· Policy & LawI don't understand why the Complainant wasted its money. Sometimes I read a UDRP and scratch my head. What was the Complainant thinking? That's my response to Healthyr, LLC v. Jonathan Curd, filed with World Intellectual Property ... Continue Reading2 Comments
India might ban .in domain investing
· Policy & LawRetroactive ban could make it harder to trade .in domains. NIXI, the non-profit organization that manages India's .in country code domain, is proposing a significant change to registration rules: no more domain investing. Currently, there's a ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Unstoppable Domains drops lawsuit against Gateway Registry
· Policy & LawNow, the real battle begins. Unstoppable Domains has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit filed in July 2022 against Gateway Registry and a party affiliated with the company. The core issue in the case will be settled in lawsuits between Unstoppable ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Dentless.com and Standout.pro UDRPs denied
· Policy & LawPanelist denies both cases but doesn't find reverse domain name hijacking. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has denied two UDRPs filed against common word domain names but did not find reverse domain name hijacking in either ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
ICANN enters into .net contract extension with Verisign
· Policy & LawICANN greenlights massive price increases for .net domains in contract renewal. On Thursday, ICANN executed a renewal of a contract extension with Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for running the .net registry. It extends the agreement to June 30, ... Continue Reading2 Comments
