Judge calls for an end to lengthy domain name battle. United States District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema has said enough is enough in a domain name lawsuit filed by John Zuccarini. Zuccarini filed the lawsuit after a court appointed receiver failed to ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Janna Bullock Plays Whack-a-Mole with Domain Names
· Policy & LawNYC socialite struggles to control domain names. New York real estate developer and socialite Janna Bullock has filed another cybersquatting lawsuit to recover domain names she says are similar to her name. Bullock filed the case against ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Woman With World’s Smallest Waist Wins Cybersquatting Lawsuit
· Policy & LawA domain name is a terrible thing to waist. Cathie Jung, who is in the Guinness Book of World Records as having "The Smallest Waist on a Living Person" at 15 inches, has won rights to the domain name CathieJung.com. Jung filed an Anticybersquatting ... Continue Reading16 Comments
Who Didn’t Do Their Homework on .Co Launch?
· Policy & LawDespite .co's best efforts, cybersquatters pile on. Washington Business Journal published a story today about companies that didn't register their .co domain name equivalent, and how cybersquatters snapped up a lot of these domain names. The story ... Continue Reading32 Comments
Microsoft Gets Patent for “Cybersquatter Patrol”
· Policy & LawCompany granted patent for typosquatting and cybersquatting tools. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today granted Microsoft U.S. patent number 7,756,987 (pdf) for "Cybersquatter Patrol". The patent is for a system of generating lists of typo and ... Continue Reading4 Comments
New Company Wants to Help Unmask Private Whois Records
· Policy & LawA possible new entrant into the trademarked domain recovery industry. NameDepot.com, Inc. has filed a trademark application for "RealRegistrant", with services described as: Application service provider, namely service, software, database, web ... Continue Reading12 Comments
Yahoo Files Patent Application for Method to Prioritize Cybersquatting Battles
· Policy & LawMethod helps brand managers prioritize cybersquatting disputes. Yahoo has filed a patent application (pdf) for a method for prioritizing which cybersquatted domain names to pursue. The application describes a system that generates a list of domain ... Continue Reading3 Comments
As Google Listen Launches, Domains Already Squatted
· Policy & LawSquatters picked up Google Listen names many years ago. Google has launched a new music and audio servicecalled Google Listen, which was sometimes referred to as Google Audio as news about the launch leaked over the past couple days. Unfortunately for ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Verizon Files Another Cybersquatting Lawsuit
· Policy & LawVerizon files cybersquatting lawsuit for Verizon.com typos. Verizon is suing 2Cool Guys.LLC (sic), Warren Weitzman, Arnold Trebach, and several John Does for trademark infringement. In the lawsuit, Verizon alleges that the defendants registered ... Continue Reading7 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