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• Cybersquatting Whitney Houston: Celebrity Cybersquatting Is Never as Profitable as When The Famous Person Dies
  Stealing Whitney's Houston's legacy web traffic: Cybersquatting is when you register someones trademark, company name, brand or personal name withe the bad faith intent to profit from their mark or fame. Many cybersquatters register typographical variations of the persons trademark... […]
• Live Feed From DomainFest 2012: Sponsored by Traverse Legal, PLC
  We are live from DomainFest 2012 in Santa Monica, CA. All tweets from the conference appear here, plus exclusive reporting..... Link to this page! <a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=ff030118cf" _mce_href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/opt […]
• What Factors Affect a Consumer’s View of Whether a Domain Name is Reputable, and thus Worth Much More Money?
  In the paper embedded into this post “Domain Bias in Web Search,” several Microsoft employees and Stanford University researchers seek to establish definitively that a “domain bias” exists on the internet wherein consumers, irrespective of all other factors, will click... […]
• Contributory Cybersquatting under the Anitcybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
  Welcome to Cybersquatting Law Radio. My name is Attorney Enrico Schaefer, and I specialize in cybersquatting issues, domain disputes, and domain theft. Today, we are talking about contributory cybersquatting under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. Play: Contributory Cybersquatting under the... […]
• To Defensively Register Domain Names or Not? - A .XXX Example
  Some universities in Michigan chose to defensively register .xxx domain names in order to protect their brand. Some did not, choosing instead to actively monitor their trademarks and brand online. The Detroit Free Press domain name article highlights the choice... […]
• Trademark Owners Defensive Registration of .XXX Domains
  Domain name disputes will certainly increase as the rollout of .XXX continues forward. There has been significant controversy about whether companies with registered trademarks should be defensively precluding registration of their brand names during the .XXX Sunrise period. Our internet... […]
• Lawsuit Filed by Porn Industry against ICANN Over .XXX
  Domain name disputes typically occur between trademark owners and domain name registrants over allegations of cybersquatting or between trademark owners and website developers, employees, partners over domain name theft and hijacking. And this first of its kind litigation case, the... […]
• Facebook Trademark Infringement Continues To Be A Problem
  Facebook Trademark Infringement Update: Trademark infringement on Facebook and Twitter continue to grow as problems for trademark owners. Companies who fail to get on the social media juggernaut are now realizing that their company name, brand name or slogan may... […]
• UDRP Filed on 3-Letter Domain
  In a recent Domain Name Wire report, Wireless company, Shenzhen AEE Technology Co., has filed a UDRP proceeding for the domain name AEE.com. The historical Whois information suggests that the owner, Shenzhen AEE Technology Co. had the domain registered and... […]
• Cybersquatting Claims: Defending Allegations of Domain Name and Trademark Cybersquatting
  You have been accused by threat letter, lawsuit or UDRP complaint of engaging in trademark cybersquatting. The penalties for cybersquatting can be serious. Statutory damages can be awarded under the Anti Cybersquatting Piracy Act (ACPA). A Uniform Domain Name Dispute... […]