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The domain name WorldTradeCenter.com, was lost in a UDRP along with WorldTradeCenter.net. The one member panel decision was handed down by the On-line ADR Center of the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC). The complainant is the World Trade Centers Association, Inc, who was represented by RODENBAUGH...

Customer, which has previously sued Moniker, says domains should have been renewed. A client of domain name registrar Moniker has sued the registrar, arguing that the registrar mistakenly let domain names expire. Given the troubles Moniker has experienced over the past couple years, it might...

Gambling company wants domain name registered in 1993. A cybersquatting complaint has been filed at World Intellectual Property Organization against the domain name Circus.com. Circus Belgium, which operates a gambling website at Circus.be, filed the claim. The domain name is owned by Online...

Nike® is one such famous trademark – although we could argue about how the Greek goddess of victory became a protector of sports shoes. Regardless, Nike® is a famous, strong brand and the company used that to wrestle away the 20 year old Romanian ccTLD domain, Nike.ro. NIKE, Inc. and Nike...

A Chinese beer manufacturer that proclaims to be the “largest in the world,” produces a beer called “Snow Beer.” The holder of the domain SnowBeer.com was hit with a UDRP, for a domain they registered in 2003. The Complainant, who operates from SnowBeer.com.cn, asserts that they produce the...

Entrepreneur Media, the company that publishes Entrepreneur.com, has sued (pdf) yet another hapless entrepreneur who dared used the word “entrepreneur” in their business. The Roos Cohen Group started a Mastermind program (god I hate that term) called Evolving Entrepreneur using the domain name...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has set its cross-hairs onto the Alibaba Group, the Chinese online merchant giant founded by Chinese billionaire entrepreneur, Jack Ma. Business Insider reports that SEC is initiating an investigation into whether there have been any violations of...

Lawsuit involved switching backend providers for three top level domain names. Verisign and XYZ have reached a settlement in one of their ongoing lawsuits. Verisign sued XYZ last year after XYZ acquired the rights to the .theatre, .security and .protection top level domains. The original...

Anything.com which has owned and still owns some great domain names just got his with a UDRP on the domain name Bagley.com According to UDRPsearch.com this is the 7th UDRP filed against Anything.com which won all but one of the UDRP’s Anything has won UDRP’s on the following domain names...

A UDRP was filed against the Candi.com domain name at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The complainant in this UDRP is a company called Candi Controls, Inc. Candi.com is a domain name that has a creation date of May 28, 2002. It was actually registered prior to 2002 to a...

In a joint order by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcementand the Homeland Security Investigations, the seizure of 67commercial website domain names has been executed. These seized domain names are all .com. The respective websites allegedly “engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of...

Musician gets LadyGaga.mobi domain name through cybersquatting dispute. If you cybersquatted on a bunch of famous peoples’ names on .mobi domain names, would anyone care? Apparently Lady Gaga does. Stefani Germanotta filed a cybersquatting complaint against Nancy Faralisz of The Michigan...

The UDRP against the two letter (LL) .com domain, KQ.com, has been denied. The UDRP was filed at the WIPO back in January by Kenya Airways, that uses “KQ” as its airline code per IATA. Kenya Airways is using the “KQ” IATA designation as part of its brand Registered in 1996, the domain KQ.com...

An interesting UDRP was filed by the dating app Tinder against the domain name TinderBuster.com which is being forwarded to SwipeBuster.com SwiperBuster.com is not a parked page but a service which allows people to see whether someone is active on the app. People might want to search for...

Domain name investor Mike Mann, through his company Domain Asset Holdings, has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to halt an adverse UDRP decision. Blue Ridge Fiberboard, Inc, maker of soundproofing fiberboard, filed a UDRP against Mann’s SoundStop.com domain name in February. A three-member panel sided...

Company that owns Highbrow.com paid about $20,000 for the domain name. The owner of an online publication at HighbrowMagazine.com has threatened the owners of Highbrow.com, demanding that they turn the domain name over to her. Highbrow.com’s owner has filed a lawsuit in federal district court...

Domain name lawyer John Berryhill shares his wisdom. Attorney John Berryhill joins us today. He talks about (1) things going on at ICANN that domainers need to be aware of (one of them really surprised me), (2) general trends in domain disputes and the problem with China, (3) dumb things...

The owner of FundMe.com has filed a lawsuit against personal fundraising site GoFundMe.com over the similarity of their names and trademarks, and a bit of nuance around types of crowdfunding. FundMe.com has a trademark related to business funding. GoFundMe is a site for personal or charitable...

PR firm filed UDRP after failing to buy domain name. Joseph Lee bought the domain name for over $10,000 in 2010 with plans to create a game site. Complainant Hopscotch Group of Paris is a PR company. The complainant uses the domain name hopscotchgroupe.com and also owns domains like...

A US judge has dramatically reduced a $10 million ruling Afilias won against Architelos in a trade secrets case. A little over a week ago, the judge ordered (pdf) that the $10 million judgment originally imposed by the jury should be reduced to $2 million. That won’t be finalized, however...