Costs of defending domain name in jury trial add up. Jeffrey Black successfully defended his domain name IMI.com in court, but it cost a lot of money. A filing by Black's attorney reveals that the total billings to date are $480,843. Black is ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Fighting for IMI.com – DNW Podcast #249
· PodcastsThe story behind one man's expensive battle to keep his domain name. Jeffrey Black registered IMI.com in 1994. Over two decades later he found himself in court spending hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to prove that he wasn’t cybersquatting on a ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Here’s the crazy story from the IMI.com cybersquatting trial
· Policy & LawA dispute over IMI.com led to a jury trial with what many would see as an obvious verdict. In 2017, concrete company Irving Materials, Inc. filed a cybersquatting claim under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to get the ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Jury overturns horrible cybersquatting decision for IMI.com
· Policy & LawA jury ruled that the owner of IMI.com was not cybersquatting on IMI.com. A jury has determined (pdf) that Jeffery Black, the owner of IMI.com, was not cybersquatting with his 1994 registration of IMI.com. I determined the same thing with just a ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Valuable IMI.com domain name lost in UDRP
· Policy & LawBad decision in a three-letter .com UDRP. I just wrote about PCO.com being saved in a UDRP despite the domain name owner not responding. This was before I saw a similar case in which a three-letter domain name was lost in a UDRP. National ... Continue Reading23 Comments