Financial services company and rating agency can't have "boycott" domain name, panel rules. Standard & Poor’s has lost a UDRP against the domain name BoycottStandardandPoors.com at World Intellectual Property Organization. The domain name owner ... Continue Reading2 Comments
.Axis TLD appears dead after WIPO decision
· Policy & LawWIPO decides not to accept late response to objection. World Intellectual Property Organization has made a determination that it will not accept a late response to a Legal Rights Objection against .axis, thereby effectively killing off Saudi Telecom ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Kudos to the World Intellectual Property Organization
· Policy & LawWIPO's online reporting functionality beats its competitors. I write a lot of articles bashing decisions made by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panelists in UDRPs. So I think it's only fair that I give the group props when it's ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Here’s Del Monte’s WEIRD lawsuit to overturn .delmonte decision
· Policy & LawDel Monte International uses cybersquatting and UDRP rules in attempt to overturn .delmonte objection. Yesterday I wrote about Del Monte International (DMI) Gmbh's lawsuit against Del Monte Corporation (DMC) after the latter won its objection to the ... Continue Reading1 Comment
8 observations from the first new TLD objection decisions
· Policy & LawSome take-aways from WIPO's first three legal rights objection decisions. WIPO has published the results of three legal rights objections for new TLDs. Objectors to .home, .vip, and .rightathome all lost their cases. Here are eight observations from ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Scammy survey site beats Tumblr in domain dispute
· Policy & LawLawyers don't provide enough evidence to convince panel that domain was registered in bad faith. Tumblr, the company that Yahoo is acquiring for $1.1 billion, has lost a cybersquatting claim for the domain name tublr.com. In its complaint filed with ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Domain arbitration cases edge up slightly in 2012
· Policy & Law...but trail the growth in domain name registrations. National Arbitration Forum (NAF) has released its official numbers for 2012 UDRP cases. Combined with World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) results, the number of UDRP cases filed ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Procter & Gamble guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
· Policy & LawConsumer products giant provided false sales numbers to WIPO panel. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Procter & Gamble guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain swash.com. Marchex has owned the domain ... Continue Reading13 Comments
ECommerce company Eyemagine found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
· Policy & LawCompany claimed rights to domain registered in 1996, well before it started using the name as a brand. Irvine, California eCommerce technology company Eyemagine Technology LLC has been found by the World Intellectual Property Organization to be guilty ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Cincinnati Zoo gets CincinnatiZoo.com eleven years later
· Policy & LawZoo moved slower than a turtle but will now get CincinnatiZoo.com. It took them a while, but one of the nation's oldest zoos now has its .com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ordered the domain name ... Continue Reading10 Comments