domain names

Managing The Legal Risk of "Verbing Up" Brands and Trademarks

May 10, 2010 06:35

Trademark lawyers need to face the facts. Despite decades of ardent counseling to the contrary, business executives and marketers are not only testing the waters with the treatment of their most valuable brands as verbs, in some cases, they are diving in head...

Best Buy, Resurrected From the Trademark Graveyard?

April 19, 2010 06:26

As a trademark type, something struck me as odd about the Best Buy logo image appearing on the brand new outdoor baseball scoreboard at Target Field, during the Minnesota Twins recent home opener against the Boston Red Sox, so I captured a photograph to discuss...

Whatis Whois?

Pamela Pengelley
April 03, 2010 20:22

WHOIS databases often contain valuable information including the contact information for a registrant of a domain name. Although private registrations are increasingly more popular, and hide the name and location of a registrant, such private registration services nonetheless are required to...

Just Ask Flickr About Direct Navigation on the Internet

April 02, 2010 10:35

I have previously attempted to sound the alarm about why companies should be concerned about direct navigation on the Internet (here here here and here), but I learned this week from The FairWinds Blog that not only does Yahoo! Inc. (operator of the photo sharing website Flickr and owner of the...

Domain Name Update

March 19, 2010 10:00

Pot luck post today, but all related to the wonderful world of domain names: The .com top-level domain (TLD) turned 25 this week.  The first .com?  Symbolics.com.  I find it deliciously ironic that, by all appearances, the domain now appears to be owned by a domainer.  (If...