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Posted by David Naffziger in ACPA, case law, typosquatting
29 Aug
In December, a court awarded Verizon a $33.5M default judgment against OnlineNIC for typosquatting on 683 domain names such as verizonphnes.com. OnlineNIC, based in China, never even showed up at court.
While it might seem that a judgment such as this would be impossible to collect, the source for nearly all cybersquatting revenue originates [...]
Posted by David Naffziger in meta tags, poaching, typosquatting
11 Mar
I spoke on a great panel on brand and reputation management. The bulk of the content was focused on personal reputation management, however it was very high quality.
Lisa Barone, of Outspoken Media, is a *very* quick typist and has great notes on the recently launched Outspoken Media blog.
The slides from my presentation are here.
Update
Ricci [...]
Posted by David Naffziger in ACPA, case law, cybersquatting, typosquatting
24 Dec
Verizon issued a press release today that announced a record $33.5M cybersquatting judgment against OnlineNIC. There were 663 domains in question and the judge chose to award $50K per domain, presumably under the guidelines of the Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act (ACPA), which allow a penalty of between $1K and $100K per domain. Very little is known [...]
Posted by David Naffziger in case law, domains, typosquatting
19 Dec
In the Vulcan Golf vs. Google case, the judge recently denied a motion by the plaintiffs to turn the lawsuit into a class action. We’ve mentioned the lawsuit before, but the general gist is that the plaintiffs are alleging that Google and several other parties participate in trademark infringement by selling ads on infringing [...]
Posted by David Naffziger in ACPA, PPC, UDRP, cybersquatting, domains, poaching, typosquatting
13 Nov
My slides from the Domains and Trademark Issues panel at PubCon are here. I went through a number of tools that website owners can use to find abuse in domains and PPC.
Clarke Walton provided an overview of trademark law and a good case study involving pubcon.com Deborah Wilcox profiled the default judgment against Punch-Clock.com [...]
Posted by David Naffziger 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 [...]