It appears some agency of the Federal Government seized 46 domain names, all using Godaddy.com servers at DomainControl.com yesterday, on Independence Day in the United States. So far I haven’t see any…
Category: Legal
TM Nightmare: 977 .Com/.Net Google Domains Registered Last Month Only 8 By Google
Over the years we have chatted about over reaching trademark holders and trademark group pushing for great protections and while we have been on the side of the domain holder, in all…
PokerStars Settes With Kentucky Over Domain Seizure Case By Paying $6 Million
PokerStars has agreed to pay just over $6 million to settle the claims of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the domain name seizure case. In September 2008 the Governor ordered the seizure…
Feds Seize 10 More Domain Names
Homeland Security seized 10 domain names today, however did not make any announcement yet about if it was part of an investigation. Many of the domain seemed to be registered back in…
German Court Limits Use Of Berlin.com & Requires Disclaimers On Site
A German Appellate court has ruled that World Media Group LLC (World.com) which owns the domain name Berlin.com has to cease using the domain name in connection with a website providing information…
Getty Images Waits 12 Years Before Going After GettyImage.com; GM 9 Years For Corvette-Stingray.com
Its quite amazing to me when I see a bang on trademark infringing domain allowed to be owned and monetized by someone other than the trademark owner. I’m not talking about typos,…
IP Pro Chats UDRP’s With Attorney’s Muscovitch, Lewis, Neu, and Pearlman
ipprotheinternet.com, in its latest issue chats about UDRP shopping, inconsistent decisions which are bound to occur since none of the providers require uniformity and the coming URS. The article quotes a lot…