Abusive registration
- August 11, 2017
Noteworthy Domain Name Decisions is a running collection of annual decisions that taken together provide insight into the jurisprudence applied…
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Two UDRP decisions posted this month involved domain names registered 20 and 21 years ago, David Duchovny v. Alberta Hot…
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Naming is the first imperative. It as much precedes the launching of new lives as it does new businesses. Names…
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UDRP Rule 1 defines RDNH as “using the Policy in bad faith to attempt to deprive a registered domain name…
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A number of recent UDRP decisions remind trademark owners (and counsel) that cybersquatting cases have to be built from the…
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Efforts to combat cybersquatting began in earnest in 1998 when the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (at the request of…
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When in the Fall of 1999 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) implemented the Uniform Domain Name…
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The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy now has seventeen years of history. A high percentage of disputes are indefensible…
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Is there any act more primary than naming? It comes before all else and makes possible what follows. For the…
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Words (and by extension their constituent letters) are as free to utter and use as is the air sustaining life.…
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There are no gatekeepers to prevent registrants from acquiring domain names incorporating marks that potentially violate third-party rights. Anyone, anywhere…
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There is a misconception among some trademark owners and their counsel that passive holding of domain names alone, Sandy Frank…
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