Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers
- May 24, 2014
Time and Expense Sitting Out Sunrise and Landrush for New TLDs
Sunrise for new TLDs refers to a stipulated period during which trademark owners may defensively preregister domain names prior to…
- February 10, 2014
Publication of Domain Name Arbitration
"Domain Name Arbitration, A Practical Guide to Asserting and Defending Claims of Cybersquatting Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution…
- December 31, 2013
Combining Second Level Domain and Top Level Suffix
The following was originally published as a guest blog on Neil Brown's website, Domain Times on December 15, 2013. The…
- April 1, 2013
Rights Protection of New dot Dictionary Word TLDs
Rights protection for anticipated new gTLDs is an urgent matter. ICANN has recently approved several mechanisms to counter cybersquatting for…
- September 7, 2011
Acquiescence Not a Defense to Cybersquatting, But Ground for Denying Transfer
The Panel in Iberostar Hoteles Y Apartamentos, S.L. v. N/A, Yuri Smolyansky, Registrant Organization: N/A Registrant / Contact Privacy Inc.,…
- August 31, 2011
Deliberative Conversations and the Making of Domain Name Jurisprudence
You may well ask, What does deliberative conversation have to do with the making of domain name jurisprudence? Mention was…
- May 25, 2011
Discretion to Terminate a Proceeding When Parties Have Also Commenced a Court Action
Discretion to Terminate a Proceeding When Parties Have Also Commenced a Court Action The UDRP is not a coordinate forum…
- January 19, 2011
UDRP’s Jurisdiction Does Not Extend to Cases Where a Registered Domain Name is Subject to a Legitimate Dispute
The UDRP offers a forum with limited jurisdiction to resolve a particular type of dispute in which a domain name…
- January 11, 2011
Multiple Related Complainants Each With Individually Vested Trademark Rights
ICANN's Rules for the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy provide that "[a]ny person or entity may initiate a complaint"…
- January 8, 2011
What Is Meant By “Mandatory” in the Phrase “Submit to a Mandatory Proceeding”?
Paragraph 4 of the Policy describes the arbitral procedure as a "mandatory administrative proceeding." This should not be misunderstood to…
- November 30, 2010
Having Trademark Rights, Not Failing to Assert Them Is the Threshold Issue
The respondent's sole contribution under paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy should be to confute the complainant's assertion of jurisdiction: that…
- October 4, 2010
The Duty to Search for Potentially Conflicting Trademarks
A person is free to choose any string of phonetic elements or numbers as a domain name as long as…