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On April 1st, Google will begin enforcing consistency between the landing page URL and the display URL.

Google has held this policy for a long time, but it has been loosely enforced. We’ve found plenty of ads where the display URL is never reached when a user is redirected to the final destination. [...]

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 [...]

Last week, BrandVerity entered closed Alpha. We have a handful of alpha testers up and running and we are conducting daily monitoring of their search terms.
We were initially concerned that uncovering trademark abuse would be a bit like panning for gold. We would spend lots of time in the river and after lots [...]

ACPA vs UDRP

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 [...]

BrandVerity is now accepting a limited number of customers into our closed alpha program.
We believe that our core functionality is sufficient to create value for customers, but it is far from where we want it to be. We’re also still tweaking many of the default settings for new accounts and even modifying the settings [...]