This article, “Opportunist Registrations of Domain Names: What Is Going On, and What Tools Are Available for Trademark Owners,” appears in Bright Ideas, a publication of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, Fall 2014, Vol. 23, No. 2. Bright Ideas Gml Article

I. Introduction

In June, 2011, the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) adopted policy recommendatgions to expand the number of generic top level domains (gTLDs) from the familiar abbreviations, .com (commercial), .edu (education)… read Bright Ideas Gml Article

An earlier article to which this is companion, “The Forum of Choice for Arbitrating Cybersquatting: The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy” was published in the ADR Journal in the Spring.