US Department of Justice Sues California Over Its New Net Neutrality Law
The U.S. Department of Justice on Sunday night filed a lawsuit against California over the new net neutrality law after just an hour the bill was signed. According to the lawsuit California's new bill...
View ArticleThe Road Less Traveled: Time Is Running Out for NTIA-Verisign Cooperative...
It is remarkable  —  for all the wrong reasons  —  that only two months remain before the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) must make a fateful decision on how it will...
View ArticleAddressing Infringement: Developments in Content Regulation in the US and the...
Over the course of the last decade, in response to significant pressure from the US government and other governments, service providers have assumed private obligations to regulate online content that...
View ArticleEasy Access to ICANN, IP Address Data Beats Info on Encrypted Data, Says...
When it comes to fighting cybercrime, "being able to easily access ICANN and look up IP addresses is a lot more important than accessing the minutiae of encrypted data communications," says Jacqueline...
View ArticleYahoo Agrees to Pay $50M and Other Costs for the Massive Security Breach...
Yahoo today announced it has agreed to pay $50 million in damages and will offer two years of free credit-monitoring services to 200 million people whose email addresses and other personal information...
View ArticleLaw Enforcement Agencies Will Have Authority on Registries and Registrars
This one is for European Law Enforcement Agencies only, and no matter what the GDPR says. Accessing Whois information and acting on a litigious domain name is becoming a nightmare for law enforcement...
View ArticleUS Copyright Office Expands Security Researchers' Ability to Hack Without...
The Librarian of Congress and US Copyright Office has updated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act extending some essential exemptions ensuring that computer security researchers won't be treated like...
View ArticleInternet Watch Foundation Uses Hashes to Block Child Abuse Material
Last week during the ICANN meeting in Barcelona I attended a short presentation from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). Their mission is pretty simple: ...eliminate child sexual abuse imagery online...
View ArticleUS Senator Wyden Proposes Bill That Could Jail Executives Over Repeated Data...
U.S. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden released an early draft of a bill today that would subject company CEOs and senior executives to tough penalties including 10 to 20 years of imprisonment for failing...
View ArticleHas President Macron Thrown Multistakeholderism Under the Bus at UN IGF 2018...
Today, President Macron threw down the gauntlet to President Trump and the US administration on Multistakeholderism. In his welcome address to IGF 2018 Paris a few hours ago, President Macron...
View ArticleEU Should Not Be Setting US WHOIS and Privacy Policy, Says MPAA
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in its recent submission to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has raised a stern objection regarding ICANN's attempt...
View ArticleFCC to Classify Text Messaging as Information Service to Fight Spam Texts,...
The FCC has unveiled two proposals as part of its plan to help reduce unwanted phone and text spam however the move is challenged by consumer advocacy groups. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Harold...
View ArticleAbusive Conduct: Domain Name Registrants and Rights Holders
Abusive conduct or cybersquatting is the essence of disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), usually by domain name registrants violating their warranties of...
View ArticleFacebook Used VPN App to Collect Competitive Data on App Usage, According to...
U.K. Parliament today released 250 pages of internal emails between Facebook and other tech companies regarding accessing user data through the social network's system. The documents were seized by...
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The Hidden Perils of Filing a Baseless UDRP Complaint
When properly used, the UDRP enables trademark owners to take control of abusive domain names. Yet sometimes the UDRP itself is misused by trademark owners to try to seize desirable domain names to...
View ArticleUS Tech Firm Cloudflare Accused of Providing Cybersecurity Services to...
Leading American tech firm Cloudflare has been accused of providing cybersecurity services to at least seven designated foreign terrorist organizations and militant groups including Taliban, al-Shabab...
View Article2018 Domain Name Year in Review
Well, it's that time of year again. The time of year when I look back at all of the biggest domain news stories from the last twelve months, and also reflect on my predictions from last year. As...
View ArticleTyposquatting as Per Se Cybersquatting Unless Proved Otherwise
The quintessence of typosquatting is syntactical variation: adding, omitting, replacing, substituting, and transposing words and letters. Recent examples include <citizens1loans> (numeral for...
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CircleID's Top 10 Posts of 2018
It is once again time for our annual review of posts that received the most attention on CircleID during the past year. Congratulations to all the 2018 participants for sharing their thoughts and...
View ArticlePrudential Settlements for Alleged Cybersquatting/Reverse Domain Name...
Given the number of awards endlessly arriving from Panels appointed to decide cybersquatting disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) (ten to fifteen published daily),...
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