In a three member panel decision on Monday, we won a UDRP decision on the domain, BrassRail.com The panel found that the complaint failed to meet the first requirement of three it must meet to win Here are some relevant quotes from the decision: """"The Complainant failed to establish enforceable rights to the “Brass Rail” mark, having reached this conclusion, the Panel declines to … [Read more...]
Think TradeMark Domains Are Bad; Look What Google & Yahoo Are Doing With iTunes
I've been watching Google's ad results for the term "itunes" for a couple of months and the results under the search term's sponsored ads are generally for non-apple sites, advertising themselves as the "official" itunes site. A couple of months ago a friends teenager boy asked me to help him an itunes account. I told him to download the software and then I would come over and set the account … [Read more...]
POOL.com Top Drop List Is Full Of Trademark Infringing Domains
Everyday pool.com sends out a list for the Top Deleting Domains for the next day. If you check out Pool.com "Top Deleting Domains" list for tomorrow, I think you will see a common theme, trademark infringing domains. Actually out of the 30 domains listed, over half, 18 by my count, are bang on trademark infringing domains. I understand that if a domain is scheduled to drop, it's going to … [Read more...]
Asset Protection Company Urges All To Register & Host Domains Outside Of US
The Sovereignsociety.com, a group whose fundamental purpose is to give advice regarding asset protection, issued an advisory yesterday, telling its members, that in light of the Kentucky Domain Seizure, they should register and host all of their domain names outside of the US. In its post, the SovereignSociety, in calling the Kentucky seizure action a "trade war", since the Commonwealth is … [Read more...]
The .ORG Registry Adopts A Domain Anti-Abuse Policy; Allows For Domain Cancellation: Are Your .Org’s At Risk?
Today The Public Interest Registry ("PIR"), the company which runs the .Org registry, announced a Domain "Anti-Abuse Policy", effective 5 February 2009. In announcing this policy PIR is taking a strong stand against what is defines as Domain Abuse and it gives itself the right to cancel, any .org, domain registration which is considered to be abusive. From the announcement: """"Abusive … [Read more...]
Know When To Hold & Know When To Fold
David Castello, pointed out to me today an update on a story we wrote about a back in October, about a Steven Thiele, a body builder, who registered a several domains of Indian tribes in Florida; miccosukeetribeofindians.com, miccosukeetribeofindiansofflorida.com and a domain named after tribe chairman Billy Cypress, billycypress.com. In the October story, we pointed out that the domain holder … [Read more...]
MartinLutherKing.org: Make’s the Best Case For Defensive Domain Registrations
A story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution point out how important it is for all businesses and "famous" persons to engage in defensive domain registrations. The story tells the tale of MartinLutherKing.org, which is owned and operated """by a white supremacist group called Stormfront, described by one watchdog organization as the largest “hate group” online. It has used King’s name for its … [Read more...]