UDRP Commentaries
- January 22, 2019
Prudential Settlements for Alleged Cybersquatting/Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Under the ACPA
Given the number of awards endlessly arriving from Panels appointed to decide cybersquatting disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute…
- January 7, 2019
Typosquatting 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>…
- December 10, 2018
Drawing Inferences from the Record: UDRP/URS Decision-Making
The weighing of evidence involves the connecting of dots, which involves drawing inferences. However, just as there can be false…
- November 25, 2018
Abusive 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…
- October 2, 2018
Remedies for Cybersquatting: New gTLD Domain Names
In the discussions proceeding the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) publishing The Management Of Internet Names And Addresses: Intellectual Property…
- September 25, 2018
Undone! Failure of Persuasion in UDRP Proceedings
A split Panel in an early decision under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) held that parties deserve…
- September 4, 2018
What Do UDRP Panels Look for in Assessing Parties’ Rights to Disputed Domain Names?
Panels appointed to adjudicate domain name disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) have written in the…
- August 19, 2018
Limitations, Delays, and Laches as Defenses to Cybersquatting Claims
In passing the baton for combating cybersquatting to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) the World Intellectual…
- August 13, 2018
Challenging UDRP Awards in Federal Court: Recent Outcomes
Challenging UDRP awards in actions under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) is infrequent though steady. There are currently a…
- August 7, 2018
What’s Abusive in Registering Domain Names, and the Reverse?
The two major providers of arbitration services for adjudicating cybersquatting complaints under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP),…
- July 27, 2018
Short Strings of Alphabet Letters in Domain Names: Random to Some, Identifiers to Others
What is the intrinsic (as opposed to trademark) value of short string domain names? It depends, of course. Rights holders…
- July 2, 2018
Combinations of Dictionary Words in Domain Names: Common vs. Distinctive Phrases
The lexicon of domain names consists of letters, words, numbers, dots, and dashes. When the characters correspond in whole (identical)…