The Collation Against Domain Abuse (CADNA) issued a paper last night calling for lawmaker to increase the penalties for Cybersquatters and to expand the parties that are held responsible for cybersquatting, not only the domain holder, but basically everyone in the monetization food chain, which would including parking and PPC companies presumable the upstream providers including Google by … [Read more...]
Ontario Court Rules In Favor Of George Kirikos On Pupa.com & Awards $4,500 In Fees
George Kirikos company, Leap Of Faith Financial Services, (Leap) just won a declaratory judgement that is was the lawful owner of the domain name Pupa.com and was awarded its court costs, all arising out of a UDRP filed last year by the Italian cosmetics company Micys. (not Macys). In June of last year we told you that a UDRP was filed on the domain name Pupa.com, owned by frequent … [Read more...]
Hollywood Reporter: “Godaddy Alleges ‘The Oscars’ Aren’t That Famous”
A story in the Hollywood Reporter of all places has landed domain name registrar Godaddy.com on the front pages The story talks about the lawsuit that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has against GoDaddy.com for "allegedly trafficking in unauthorized trademarks. The Film Academy (AMPAS) takes issue with GoDaddy's "CashParking" program wherein its customers are allowed to buy a … [Read more...]
12 Year After Losing UDRP, College Sues Graduate For $100K Over Same Domain
In a story that appeared in ChristianPost.com, Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Fla. has filed a suit against a former graduate Peter Gage over the domain name PensacolaChristianCollege.com (PCC) seeking statutory damages of $100,000 under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) It looks like Mr. Gage and the school have been battling it out over this domain since … [Read more...]
2K+ Domains Frozen By Court In Joel Williams Case: Is One Of Your’s On The List?
A Tennessee State Chancery Court issued a temporary injunction freezing almost 2,200 domain names. Many of the domains subject to the court order yesterday are not owned by any party to the lawsuit. In fact at five of the domain's on the list belong to my company, Worldwide Media, Inc., Other domains on the frozen list belong to other well known domainers including Telepathy, Inc., … [Read more...]
Here Are the Affidavits & Study Verisign Used In Support Of Its Objection To .Cam:
A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign had filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. Last night we published Verisign's objection to .Cam as being too close to .Com In support of their objection, Verisign provided the Centere with two … [Read more...]
17 New gTLD Objections Filed At WIPO: Including .Vip; .Food; .Now
17 more Legal Rights Objections have been filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization: (WIPO) today largely filled with one applicant for a particular gTLD filing a Right's Objection to all the other applicants for the same string. This is in addition to the 10 objections reflected on WIPO's site yesterday. Including in today's update is objections filed to 5 applications for … [Read more...]