Namecheap.com, in association with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Fight For The Future (FFTF), launched the website Respectourprivacy.com to allow people to file a comment with ICANN letting them know they…
Category: Legal
Here Is The Statement Phil Corwin Of The ICA Will Be Giving To The House Judiciary Committee
Here is the Statement of Philip S. Corwin, Counsel, Internet Commerce Association will give today to the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet The hearing is entitled:…
Co. With 13K Employees, 2,700+ Stores Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.uk
Consolidated Artists B.V. of Rotterdam Netherlands was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain names Mango.co.uk and Mango.uk Its only the 5th time in 13 years that a…
.Sucks Registry Goes On Offense & Threatens To Sue ICANN For Defamation/Breach of Contract
In a sternly worded letter sent to ICANN today by the attorney’s representing Vox Populi the operator of the .Sucks registry put ICANN on notice that they believe ICANN has defamed the…
Go Daddy Wins Important Section 230 Case
Eric Goldman published an article on what he deemed an important legal victory for Go Daddy. Go Daddy won a Section 230 case which involved some Teamsters Union members. Section 230 is…
Why Did It Take This TM Holder 10 Years To File A UDRP On The Parked Domain HumanRightsWatch.com?
Human Rights Watch was awarded the domain name HumanRightsWatch.com in a otherwise unremarkable UDRP opinion. “The organization has a United States Trademark on the term since 2003 and “uses the HUMAN RIGHTS…
Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations?
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearinghouse (TMCH) program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a…