Lawful Registrations of Domain Names
Doug Isenberg notes in a recent CircleID essay that two records in domain name disputes were broken in 2017, namely number of cybersquatting claims (3,036 in 2016, 3,073 in 2017) and number of domain...
View ArticleDOJ Closes Probe of VeriSign Over .Web TLD
The Justice Department has closed its investigation into VeriSign Inc.'s involvement in an auction for the .web internet domain. Alexis Kramer reporting in BNA: "The department's antitrust division...
View ArticlePreventing 'Techlash' in 2018: Regulatory Threats
U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J. Donohue on January 10, 2018, warned that "techlash" is a threat to prosperity in 2018. What was he getting at? A "backlash against major tech companies is...
View ArticleTips for Ecommerce to Survive and Thrive with GDPR
The regulatory environment for brands and retailers that do business online is getting stricter thanks to regulatory changes in Europe with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as...
View ArticleExtraterritoriality
Black's Law Dictionary defines it as "the extraterritorial operation of laws; that is, their operation upon persons, rights or jural relations, existing beyond the limits of the enacting state, but...
View ArticleBitcoin Domain Names Become Popular - and Attract Disputes
Cryptocurrencies (such as Bitcoin) are all the rage — so, naturally, related domain name disputes are, too. The wild fluctuations in cryptocurrency prices (Bitcoin hit a low of close to $6,000 this...
View ArticleGDPR - Territorial Scope and the Need to Avoid Absurd and Inconsistent Results
It's not just establishment it's context! There is an urgent need to clarify the GDPR's territorial scope. Of the many changes the GDPR will usher in this May, the expansion of EU privacy law's...
View ArticleU.S. Lawmakers Moving to Consider New Rules Imposing Stricter Federal...
Reuters reports today that several top lawmakers have revealed a "bipartisan momentum is growing in the Senate and House of Representatives for action to address the risks posed by virtual currencies...
View ArticleUS Congress Considering Legislation to Authorize Faster Access to...
A legislation called, Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, or Cloud Act, was introduced on Monday by Congress aimed at creating a clearer framework for law enforcement to access data stored in...
View ArticleWHOIS Access and Interim GDPR Compliance Model: Latest Developments and Next...
WHOIS access and development of an interim GDPR compliance model remains THE hot topic within the ICANN community. Developments are occurring at a break-neck pace, as ICANN and contracted parties push...
View ArticleIPv6, 5G and Mesh Networks Heightening Law Enforcement Challenges, Says...
In a submission to the Joint Committee on Law Enforcement's inquiry into Impact of new and emerging information and communications technology, the Department of Home Affairs and Australian Criminal...
View ArticleWashington State Passes Country's Toughest Net Neutrality Legislation
Washington may be the first state to approve a net neutrality law that applies to all wired and wireless Internet providers in the state. While other states such as Montana, New Jersey, and Vermont...
View ArticleTracking the Line that Separates Cybersquatting from Trademark Infringement
The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a rights protection mechanism crafted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and adopted by the Internet Corporation for...
View ArticleICANN Cannot Expect the DPAs to Re-Design WHOIS, but Asking for a Reprieve...
We are on the brink of the most serious threat to the open and public Internet for decades. ICANN, under pressure from domain name registrars and EU data protection authorities, has proposed an...
View ArticleParsing Predatory and Parasitical from Innocent and Good Faith Domain Name...
When the World Intellectual Property Organization began deliberating in 1998 and 1999 about creating an arbitral regime that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers transformed into the...
View ArticleHolocaust Remembrance Day
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today we remember that the Nazis rounded up Jews, Roma, political dissidents, and other "undesirables" using the best data and technology of the day and sent them...
View ArticleWhy Getting Awards Wrong Undermines the Integrity of the UDRP
The integrity of any legal system depends on the quality of mind of those appointed to administer it. There are expectations that the one judging the facts and applying the law knows what the facts are...
View ArticleICANN Files Legal Action Against Domain Registrar for Refusal to Collect...
Germany-based ICANN-accredited registrar EPAG owned by Tucows has informed ICANN that it plans to stop collecting Whois contact information from its customers as it violates the GDPR rules. As a...
View ArticleA Trebuchet Defence in the Age of the Augmented Reality Cyberwarrior
I've been ruminating on this for a while, this follow-up that was a decade in the offing. My article Trench Warfare in the Age of The Laser-Guided Missile from January 2007 did pretty good in terms of...
View ArticleWhat Happens If Two Applications for a New gTLD Are a City and a Family Name?
When applying for a new gTLD, what happens if two applications for the same extension are a city and a family name? Which one wins? Let's imagine that a person whose family name is "Marseille" applied...
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