Policy & Law

China isn't known for respecting intellectual property rights and its latest domain name policy reinforces its stance. According to reports by vmunet and Sina.com, China is changing the way it rules on trademark disputes for its .CN domain names. In ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment

The domain industry might crumble if the Unites States Congress gets more involved in domain name policy. I've seen a lot of scary things that could knock the domain name industry off its upward trajectory. But this takes the cake. According to an ... Continue Reading1 Comment

An article in Red Herring talks about Verisign, its Network Solutions disaster, and where it's headed. The article in the January 30 print edition discusses CEO Stratton Sclavos' vision to make the company last into the future. But its past isn't so ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment

Here's a real life example of the consequences of not securing your company's domain name. If you were signing up for a standardized test prep course, would you realize that TestMasters is not the same company as Test Masters? Apparently there's a big ... Continue Reading2 Comments

An interesting WIPO decision suggests that acceptance into a company's affiliate program while using a confusing similar domain might prove that the trademark holder recognizes the affiliate's rights to the domain. Out-Law picked up on the case of ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment

Parents are snapping up the domain names of their kids. If only celebrities were so smart. A story in The New York Times discusses how parents are starting to register their childrens' domain names while they're still infants. For example, a baby is ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment

Are politicians who don't know the first thing about registering domain names fit to govern? This case in Pittsburgh is one of the funniest political domain name faux paus of all time. Here are the players: -State Rep. Jeff Habay, R-Shaler, ... Continue Reading2 Comments

Country music star Conway Twitty died in 1993, but ownership of the ConwayTwitty.com domain name lives on. Now the question is who has rights to the domain name. Royce Inman registered the domain and operated the domain as a fan site. But Conway ... Continue Reading4 Comments

I just finished reading DNJournal's year-in-review article, and the issue raised again and again is click fraud. Will click fraud destroy the domain name industry? For those newbies out there, click fraud refers to people or software purposely ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment