Receiver asks for typo domains to be confiscated from Apple and others

Receiver wants ICANN to reverse domain transfers.

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Class Action Lawsuit Against Google For Ads On Parked Domains Turned Down

paidContent reports the lawsuit brought against Google in 2008 over quality of ads showing on parked or error message web pages has been thrown out by the court.

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Valero is third company to belatedly request .xxx domain name

Energy company complains to WIPO about Valero.xxx. San Antonio, TX based energy giant Valero Energy is the third company to ask an arbitration panel to give it a .xxx domain name. The company filed a complaint last week with World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPO), seeking control of Valero.xxx

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Court grants preliminary injuction under ACPA for personal name

ACPA can protect your name even if you aren’t a celebrity.

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Judge allows fraud claim in Monte Cahn vs. Oversee.net to move forward, nixes two others

Judge tosses two claims, allows fraud claim to move forward. The judge overseeing Monte Cahn vs. Oversee.net has handed down a mixed bag to both parties in his latest ruling.

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Texas court claims jurisdiction over ICANN and says ICANN can stay a UDRP proceeding

An interesting case from a Texas court.

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Jelly Belly and Original Gourmet Foods not being so sweet

Companies head to court over “original gourmet” name. This trademark dispute has little to do with domain names but does involve my favorite candy company, Jelly Belly. Original Gourmet Food Company, Inc., has filed a dispute ( pdf ) in U.S. District Court for declaratory judgment over the “original gourmet” name.

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Microsoft’s Bing Gears Up for Black Friday

Microsoft registers domains for upcoming shopping days. Black Friday is less than two weeks away, and Microsoft is busy registering domain names for the big day. In recent days the company has registered a handful of domain names related to its Bing search engine and Black Friday and the following Cyber Monday. Among the domains it has registered: BingBlackFriday.com and .net BingCyberMonday.com and .net The domain names currently forward to the Bing search engine for the related query, e.g. “BingcyberMonday”.

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Validus Holdings Says Former Contractor Used .Co Domains to Intercept Confidential Emails

Former contractor allegedly intercepted emails using .co domain names. Validus Holdings, a publicly traded (NYSE: VR) reinsurance and insurance company, has filed a lawsuit against the owner of several .co domain names.

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Facebook Recovers 14 Typo Domains That Were in Lawsuit

Defendants hand domain names over to Facebook. Facebook has recovered 14 Facebook.com domain name typos that were named in its massive cybersquatting lawsuit filed in July. The domain names were most recently using the PrivacyProtect.org whois masking service

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Email Marketing Company Emma Sues Microstrategy, Owner of Emma.com

Emma, Inc. pays for not owning Emma.com. A heavyweight battle is about to ensue over the name “Emma”. Email marketing company Emma, Inc., which operates its main web site at MyEmma.com, has sued publicly traded MicroStrategy for trademark infringement ( pdf ). MicroStrategy has owned the domain name Emma.com since the 1990s but didn’t use it until recently.

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Cricket Communications Dismisses Case Against Cricket.com Owners

Cricket.com to remain with current owners. Wireless company Cricket Communications has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit it brought against the owners of Cricket.com. Cricket Communications sued Global Cricket Ventures alleging that the site about the cricket sport was merely a coverup to show ads related to wireless phones.

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Judge Dismisses Verizon Lawsuit Against DirectNIC

Judge grants Motion to Dismiss against large domain name registrar and its parent company. The judge presiding over Verizon’s cybersquatting lawsuit has granted a Motion to Dismiss ( pdf ) filed by Intercosmos Media Group, Inc., directNIC, LLC and Domain Contender, LLC for lack of personal jurisdiction. Domain Contender is a subsidiary of directNIC and directNIC is a subsidiary of Intercosmos. Verizon argued that the entities had operations in Florida. The court found otherwise: Verizon argues that the IMG Defendants are subject to specific jurisdiction under the long-arm statute because they purportedly have an office in Florida

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iPhone Jailbreak Site Files Lawsuit Over Domain Name

Company behind Cydia app directory files lawsuit. After losing a dispute under the uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP) in March, a jailbreak iPhone app store has filed a lawsuit in an effort to get the domain name Cydia.com. Saurikit, LLC has a directory of apps that work on jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches that it hosts at cydia.saurik.com. It also has a U.S. trademark for “Cydia”

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Kohler Files Cybersquatting Lawsuit Against Repeat Offenders

After paying off cybersquatters, Kohler says it got burned. Plumbing fixtures giant Kohler has filed an anticybersquatting lawsuit against a company that it had already paid to stop registering its trademarks as domain names. The federal district suit was filed against DomainJet, Inc, Jack Sun, and one or more of the company’s employees. According to Kohler, it approached the defendants after it noticed they registered Kohlerco.in.

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Trader Joe’s Sues Grocery Delivery Web Site

Trader Joe’s unhappy with food delivery service. Fast growing and trendy grocery store chain Trader Joe’s has sued the owner of TJsDeliveryService.com for trademark infringement.

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Domainer Caught Off Guard After Being Named in Apparel Counterfeiting Lawsuit

Domainer with parked domain name ensnared in lawsuit. Imagine you’re a domain investor, just going along and buying domain names and parking them like everyone else. You know you may get hit with a cease & desist every once in a while from an aggressive trademark lawyer. But that’s about it

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When a Business Relationship Goes Sour, Make Sure You Own the Domain Name

Another lawsuit shows that domain names are important intellectual property. I’ve written numerous times about web design companies holding a client’s domain name hostage

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