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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

On another forum I visit, one of the members posted about a cease and desist order they received from a company representing shutterfly.com
In the letter, it claimed that the owner of skutterfly.com was trying to captialize on the trademark of shutterfly.com when they registered the skutterfly.com domain name. They quoted the ACPA (Anti Cybersquatting Consumer [...]

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:
NeimuMarcus.com
playboibunny.com
oldnavyt.com
I’m not exactly [...]

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Recently The Register published a news story (and another) about a man (Paul Dell) who is being sued by the computer manufacturer (Dell Computers) for acts of “parasitism and of unfair competition”.
It seems Dell, Inc feels that the Spain based web designer’s domain name (dellwebsites.com) is deliberately infringing on their trademark because the company allegedly [...]