cybersquatting

No Risk = No Sales: Building A Successful Retail Business

March 23, 2010 18:24

Guest post by Macala Wright Lee, Editor-In-Chief of FashionablyMarketing.Me, the largest, international digital fashion marketing magazine online. Wright Lee has been a consumer marketing consultant for 10 years. During Magic in February, Los Angeles fashion industry executives Frances Harder, Dana...

What’s in a Name? Domain Name Disputes for Dummies

Pamela Pengelley
February 01, 2010 01:56

Never underestimate the value of a good domain name! As any website owner will tell you, http://www.rose.com, by any other name, is likely to lose customers. About a week ago, my colleague’s nephew, Kevin Bortnick, found himself in a domain name predicament. His plight is interesting and he has g...

Challenges in IPR Arbitration in China

January 18, 2010 10:51

King & Wood's IP Legal Group in Beijing The Domain Name Dispute Settlement Center of CIETAC was established in December, 2000, and began operation on July, 2005, as the Internet Disputes Settlement Center. This Center accepts cases including cybersquatting of domain names (disputes on Chinese...

District Court Applies Calder Effects Test in Typosquatting Case

November 23, 2009 18:30

On November 13, 2009, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan applied the Calder effects test in granting a defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(2), or, in the alternative, to transfer venue. Weather...

Fraud at Domain Name Auction House

Daniel Kelly
November 06, 2009 10:00

A bomb exploded in the domain name aftermarket world on Wednesday.  A well-known domain name auction house called SnapNames.com announced that one of its (now former) employees had been bidding as a shill in many online domain name auctions run by the company since 2005.  SnapNames has an...