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Posted in ACPA, case law, cybersquatting, domains, typosquatting
05 Aug
The US district court in southern California recently granted an injunction against Navigation Catalyst (nofollow) and their bulk registrar Basic Fusion (nofollow). Navigation Catalyst is definitely among the larger domain companies and had engaged in heavy ‘domain tasting’, the registration of domain names to test them for traffic.
This case is significant because it is the [...]
Techcrunch reports that CitizenHawk recently raised a $3M round.
CitizenHawk sells its services in two ways:
You can purchase their typosquatter identification tools and manage the recovery process yourself.
They acquire domains for free as long as you allow them to be an affiliate for 2 years.
We feel that this is great validation of the pain in the [...]
In June of 2007, a group of plaintiffs filed a class-action cybersquatting lawsuit against domain parking companies and Google (for providing the ads to the domain parking companies). As Eric Goldman states in his initial 07 analysis “I believe this is the first lawsuit against Google for its domainer relationships.”
The case moved forward slightly last [...]
While this scam has been occurring for nearly 6 months, the scammers seem to have stepped up their efforts recently.
The recipient receives an email like this:
Dear CEO,
We are the domain name registration organization in China,which mainly deal with international company’s in china.We have something important need to confirm with your company.For now Saqi company [...]
Sarah Bird at SEOMoz has an excellent post up on the differences between ACPA and UDRP. She touches on a few of the related issues of why someone might want to bring an ACPA suit instead of filing a UDRP.
If someone owns a domain that you feel infringes on your trademarks, I highly recommend reading [...]