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The Domaining Industry is not perfect! Neither is the world! Some of the most powerful names in the Domaining Industry are making money on a monthly basis off trademark and typo domain names and showing up at Domaining events promoting themselves! Th...

The question was raised to why domain name parking sites are not exposed for harboring cybersquatters who make money from parked typo and trademark domain names. When I started out back in 2000, I had no idea what Domaining was and why domain names w...

Internet lawyer Richard Newman discusses whether the eCommerce and Internet communities believe now is the time to overhaul the UDRP.

Savvy Internet marketing allows thousands of individuals and companies to peddle more than a million counterfeit sports shirts and jerseys annually, according to the 2011 Special Edition of the Brandjacking Index published today. The online sale of c...

In Mobile Anesthesiologists Chicago, LLC v. Anesthesia Associates of Houston Metroplex, P.A., ___ F.3d ___, 2010 WL 3811319 (7th Cir. Oct. 1, 2010), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a claim brought...

A recent tweet by Andrew Nystrom of RedBull brought attention to a growing trend we've noticed in Social Media sites such as Twitter and Facebook -- that of Typosquatting. Typosquatting is a form of brandjacking/cybersquatting in which someone regist...

Dana White is a no-nonsense type of guy. He is outspoken and blunt to put it lightly. And he has consistently made it clear that he is in the fight game, and that this business is not for the feint of heart.A myriad of expletive ladened quotes from t...

On November 13, 2009, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan applied the Calder effects test in granting a defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(2), or, in th...

Brandjacking is alive and well on Twitter. Remember this phenomenon in the 90’s? The world’s largest marketers were racing to define an Internet presence, only to discover that squatters had already registered their brand names as domain...

The Toronto Raptors' forward Chris Bosh sued a cybersquatter for the rights to www.chrisbosh.com and 800 other athlete and celebrity domain names.  Mr. Bosh won his fight against Hoopology.com (I refuse to provide a link for this site because I...

As you are probably already know, dot com, dot net, and dot org domain names (and some other domain known types) are generally sold on a first come, first served basis – that is to say that the first person to identify a previously unregistered...

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There were a record number of cybersquatting cases in 2008. "The most common business sector in which complaints arose was pharmaceuticals, due to websites offering sales of medicines with protected names. Other top sectors for complaints were b...

There were a record number of cybersquatting cases in 2008. "The most common business sector in which complaints arose was pharmaceuticals, due to websites offering sales of medicines with protected names. Other top sectors for complaints were b...

The Rocket Docket has posted a brief of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia's decision granting summary judgment to Citibank in a cybersquatting case brought under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U...

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