What It Takes to Prove Common Law Rights in UDRP Complaints
The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy now has seventeen years of history. A high percentage of disputes are indefensible and generally undefended. As the history lengthens, early...
View ArticleCore Principles of Domain Name Law Created in UDRP Proceedings
When in the Fall of 1999 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) implemented the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, it did not come with a fully formed...
View ArticleChina's New Cybersecurity Law Will Be in Effect Starting Thursday
According to the official news agency, Xinhua, implementation of China's controversial Cybersecurity Law will begin on June 1, requiring strict data surveillance and storage for companies operating in...
View ArticleDoes ICANN's UDRP Preserve Free Speech and Allow Room for Criticism?
The phenomenal growth of the Internet has resulted in a proliferation of domain names. The explosion of '.com' registrations coincided with an increase in domain name disputes, and with it the legal...
View ArticleTrump Administration Doubles Down on Surveillance
The White House has expressed its full support on the need for permanent reauthorization of Section 702, created "to address an intelligence-collection gap that resulted from the evolution of...
View ArticleBuilding a Case for Cybersquatting Under the UDRP
A number of recent UDRP decisions remind trademark owners (and counsel) that cybersquatting cases have to be built from the ground up. Each stage has its evidentiary demands. The first two demand...
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Why the Record Number of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking UDRP Filings in 2016?
What do these Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) filings have in common? — Dreamlines GmbH, a German cruise promoter, files a UDRP dispute on dreamlines.com, a domain registered 10...
View ArticleCycling Legend Greg LeMond Sues Cybersquatters Upward of $6.6 Million
A federal restraining order has been issued against a father and son accused of registering several domain names based on cycling legend Greg LeMond's name and his company. In a story published in the...
View ArticleU.S. Lawmakers Wary of Kaspersky Lab, the Russian Cybersecurity Firm
U.S. Congress is growing increasingly suspicious of the popular Russian anti-virus software provider, Kaspersky Lab. Western corporations such as Best Buy, load laptop computers with Kaspersky Lab...
View ArticleAfghanistan Enacts Law Targeting Online Crime and Militancy
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has signed into law a cybercrime bill this week targeting online crime and militancy by groups such as the Taliban and Islamic State despite concerns it could limit...
View ArticleThe URS Also Applies to These Top-Level Domains
The Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) is often described as a domain name dispute policy that applies to the new gTLDs. While that's true, the URS is actually broader than that. The URS (a quick...
View ArticleTrademark Registrations on the 'Supplemental Register' Don't Count (in Domain...
The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) has never required that a complainant own any trademark registrations to succeed in a domain name dispute, given that common law trademark...
View ArticleEFF Cautions Against Unfair TLD Policies, Offers Advice on Choosing New gTLDs...
In a white paper released on Thursday, EFF has warned domain registrants against unfair policies set by new TLD registries and offers ways to minimize exposure to trademark bullying. The white paper...
View ArticleUDRP and the ACPA Differences, Advantages and Their Inconveniences
Along came the Cyber-squatters with the dot COM boom One problem with the Internet, non-existent before 1994, is the confrontation between persons who, either intentionally or unintentionally, create...
View ArticleU.S. Senators to Introduce IoT Security Bill
U.S. senators on Tuesday announced plans to introduce legislation seeking to address vulnerabilities in IoT devices. Dustin Volz reporting in Reuters: "The new bill would require vendors that provide...
View ArticleWhen a Domain Name Dispute is 'Plan B'
"Plan B" (noun): an alternative plan of action for use if the original plan should fail. While having a backup plan is usually a good idea, it's often not an effective way to obtain someone else's...
View ArticleWhere to Search UDRP Decisions
Searching decisions under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is important — for evaluating the merits of a potential case and also, of course, for citing precedent when drafting...
View ArticleIs a New Set of Governance Mechanism Necessary for the New gTLDs?
In order to be able to reply to the question of whether a new set of governance mechanisms are necessary to regulate the new Global Top Level Domains (gTLDs), one should first consider how efficiently...
View ArticleShould the EB-5 Investor Visa Program Recognize Cyber Workers?
The EB-5 Investor Visa Program was created by Congress in 1990 to "stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors." The program, administered by the...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Justice Demands IP Addresses, Other Details on Visitors to...
The Los Angeles-based hosting company, DreamHost on Monday revealed that for the past several months it has been dealing with a search warrant from the Department of Justice pertaining to a website...
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