Posts under ‘Domain Names’

The Social Media Influence 2009 Conference which I attended on Tuesday was quite enlightening.  Interestingly I was the only lawyer present.  There was a speaker on the law -  Struan Robertson  who is a journalist and legal director of Outlaw.com – but he was only allocated half an hour, and as the previous speakers overran [...]

Verizon has been awarded a record amount in a law suit against a tech company and domain registrar, OnlineNIC, which had registered over 660 domain names that used Verizon’s trademarks. The case was brought under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act which is a US Federal Law that was enacted in 1999. The law basically codifies [...]

The Kentucky Court of Appeals has overturned the Domain Name Seizure Order which I discussed in my previous post. To recap, last year a court in Kentucky had seized 114 domain names from several online gambling sites.  The lower court had ruled that the domain names were a “gambling device” and therefore could be seized [...]

The state of the world economy is not in the best shape and businesses are looking to cut costs. Trade mark owners are no different as they try to streamline expenditure without compromising brand protection. Cost reduction, in the Intellectual Property sector, is a delicate exercise that requires an in-depth cost analysis of each aspect [...]

It has been reported that the well known US Online Payment Service, Checkfree, has been hacked and that at least two of their domain names had been taken over. Throughout the US, users were being given bogus security certificates when attempting to login to their accounts.  Also, the site was mapping to an IP address [...]

Recently the state of Kentucky has moved to seize the domain names of 141 online gambling sites. The move has sent shockwaves throughout the gambling and internet community because it could set a dangerous precedent. Attorneys for the governor of Kentucky is arguing that they have the right to seize the domain names because they [...]

Recently Nominet revealed that they were over 7 million registered .uk domain names. One million of those domain names were registered in the last year. In a recent survey of British internet users it was revealed that 72% of British internet users were more likely to choose a .uk rather than a .com when looking [...]

The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently approved a recommendation to expand the number of Top Level Domains (TLDs) from the existing 21 TLDs to what could eventually become thousands of domain names. The sudden availability of domain names provides an opportunity for businesses to choose a domain [...]

In recent years, a number of comparative websites have appeared online in which consumers can compare prices of a number of businesses without the need to search individual websites. Websites such as Expedia use special web crawling software which accesses information from various websites in order to obtain information – key to the consumer being [...]

Domain names are always an important part of any business. For web based businesses they are sometimes a lifeline. So, what do you do if you do not own a domain name you want? One of the available options is to use a domain drop catching service. This involves registering your interest with a service [...]