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Monday, January 19th, 2009

I read an interesting post in Elliot J Silver’s blog about a recent UDRP case lost by former eBay CEO, Meg Whitman. I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t play one on TV, but after reading some quotes from the panelists that made the decision to deny the complain (without the respondent even offering a [...]

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

It looks like Dotster has been named in a typo-squatting lawsuit filed by Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. The high end retail companies claim that dotster abused its status as an official icann registrar by mass registering names that are common typographical errors of federally registered trademarks. Sample domain names referenced in the lawsuit include: [...]