The brand Theorem is a crowded brand. A company called Theorem is suing (pdf) another company called Theorem for trademark infringement, and it brings up an important point about choosing a popular dictionary term for your business name. The ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Fractal Analytics files cybersquatting lawsuit
· Policy & LawAnalytics firm wants to recover two domain names that are similar to its trademark. Fractal Analytics has filed an in rem cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) against the domain names FractalAnalyticsInc.com and Fractal-Analytics.com. The analytics company ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Blockchain.io lawsuit can go forward after judge issues ruling
· Policy & LawJudge dismisses claims against CEO but says most of the other claims can move forward. A lawsuit brought by the owner of Blockchain.com against the owner of Blockchain.io can move forward after the judge hearing the case denied the defendant's ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
.NZ domain manager sues Whois API
· Policy & LawCompany goes after another Whois record seller. Domain Name Commission (DNC), which manages New Zealand's .nz country code domain name, has sued Whois information provider Whois API. The company is also known as Whois XML API. The lawsuit is similar ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Stolen domain lawsuit now officially a clusterf*ck
· Policy & LawAnother party shows up to continue lawsuit over allegedly stolen domains. What was supposed to be a simple in rem stolen domain name case got a lot messier in April. Now it is a clusterf*ck. Yoshiki Okada filed a lawsuit late last year to ... Continue Reading4 Comments
France appeals immunity decision in France.com case
· Policy & LawJudge argued that sovereign immunity required discovery first. A case over ownership of France.com is moving forward, now with a side trip to a U.S. appeals court. Jean-Noël Frydman, who registered France.com in 1994, lost control of the domain ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Judge orders 864.com returned to prior registrant
· Policy & Law864.com returned to prior owner after it was apparently stolen for a second time. A court has entered a default judgment (pdf) in an in rem lawsuit over stolen numeric domain names. It has ordered the domain names to be returned to their prior ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Scratch.org update and subpoenas
· Policy & LawHere's why domain investors got subpoena notices from Enom. There's been a lot of talk in domain circles today about subpoena notices for domains at Enom. The subpoena stems from a lawsuit that Scratch Foundation, a non-profit created at MIT, ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Verisign thwarts cyberattack by taking down typo domain name
· Policy & LawCourt grants temporary restraining order against domain mimicking VerisignDNS.com. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com domain names, has successfully taken down the domain name VerisignNNS.com, which it says was about to be used in a ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Owner of Zon.Tools sues to get ZonTools.com domain name
· Policy & LawPlaintiff claims owner of matching .com is cybersquatting. The owner of the domain name Zon.Tools filed a lawsuit (pdf) in an effort to get the domain name ZonTools.com. Zon Tools, Inc offers tools at Zon.Tools to help Amazon sellers with ... Continue Reading9 Comments