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No Right or Legitimate Interest Accrues from Merely Registering a Domain Name
If merely registering a domain name incorporating a trademark secured a right or legitimate interest "every respondent in proceedings under…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.,…Factors In Favor Of and Against a Party
Intention can be deduced from both sound and silence. What a party does and says or the reverse is evidence…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…Acronyms, Passage of Time, Reputation and Coincidence
Domain names composed of two or three letters are "extremely prized," Deutsch Welle v. Diamondware Capital Ltd, D2000-1202 (WIPO January…The Binary versus the Unitary Concept of Abusive Registration
A minority view has emerged, indeed is greatly insistent and inarguably articulate even if not persuasive, that questions a bedrock…Domain Names are Intangible Personal Property
Domain names were initially seen as having two lives: providing “addresses for computers that [are] easy to remember ... without…Registering Fan Club Domain Names: Ambivalence to Unfavorable
Of all the WIPO Views on Selected UDRP Questions, two stand out for Panels being in disagreement. Criticism sites (paragraph…Comments and Commentary: Protected Noncommercial Fair Use
Expressing one's thoughts in a domain name identical or confusingly similar to a trademark is protected speech even if it…Rights to Dictionary Words and Common Phrases as Trademarks and Domain Names
As a trademark descends on the scale of protectability its holder has less cause for complaint. If it were otherwise…Domain Names Registered Prior to Trademark
Unless a respondent has occult powers domain names registered prior to trademark acquisition cannot have been registered in bad faith.…Request to Transfer the Domain Name and Forego the Usual UDRP Analysis
Rule 17 of the Rules of the Policy provides alternative instructions for terminating a proceeding: “(a) If, before the Panel’s…