One of the best participants at Namepros in my opinion is John Berryhill. John takes the time to help out on matters of intellectual property, udrp's and other industry news. Every once in awhile he makes a reply that is worthy of a post and I think it's important for those who don't participate at Namepros to read. In a thread about James Booth's $275K sale of Galatea.com. John chimed in with … [Read more...]
Swedish domain registry takes the Pirate Bay of Science offline
The Swedish Internet Foundation, which manages Sweden’s .se has deactivated the domain name Sci-Hub.se which has been known as the PirateBay of Science, according to TorrentFreak.com. TorrentFreak.com published an article on the takedown. From the article: Major academic publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society are not happy with the rogue research library. These … [Read more...]
An attempt to Hijack a Domain Seizure Order, Posing as a Rightsholder failed
TorrentFreak.com published an article where there was an attempt to hijack a domain name seizure order. MindGeek who runs many popular online adult video websites won millions of dollars and the right to take over domain names won in a lawsuit. A lot of times when a company loses a copyright infringement case in the online porn space they just move to new domain names. That is what is apparently … [Read more...]
2021 was a Record-Setting Year for Domain Name Disputes
Doug Isenberg at Giga.Law posted a video and post on a record year for domain name disputes. From the article: One more reason that could be contributing to the rise in domain name disputes is a little bit of additional interest in some of the new top-level domains. In the second quarter of 2021, the .shop TLD appeared in the most number of disputes behind .com across all of the UDRP dispute … [Read more...]
The Curious case of Adventist.com
There has been an interesting legal battle brewing with regards to the domain name Adventist.com. Davide F. Schiavetti of Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C. broke down parts of the case on Jdsupra.com. Mr. Schiavetti likes to refer to domain investing as, “domain name warehousing”. The parties in this case are, The General Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists and … [Read more...]
Gordon Ramsay vs GordonRumsay.com
Gordon Ramsay is apparently dealing with someone trying to cause confusion with his name. In 2019, Kushnarenko Oleksii set up “gordonrumsay.com”, having changed just one letter of the star’s real website gordonramsay.com. In January, Mr Ramsay’s lawyers filed an official complaint to the World Intellectual Property Organisation insisting the Russian national was “typosquatting” the chef’s real … [Read more...]
Auction of over 900 Gleissner trademark registrations in Latvia set to be undertaken
WorldTrademarkReview.com published an article about an upcoming auction of over 900 trademark regs in Latvia. Michael Gleissner has filed approximately 6800 trademarks according to the article. I have sold and brokered domain names to Mick in the past. There was never any mention of trademarks or any problems. I was surprised when all the trademark registrations started happening. From the … [Read more...]