Legal

Michael Gleissner owner of several companies such as Bigfoot, Fashion One Television, and CKL Holdings has lost several UDRP complaints. He is using thousands of shell companies and hundreds of trademarks registered in various countries …

The domain name POG.co, owned by someone from China, was lost in a UDRP complaint that was filed by the owner of POG.com,Web Entertainment Limited. The case is rather interesting from many aspects so let’s …

Michael Gleissner owner of several companies such as Bigfoot, Fashion One Television, and CKL Holdings lost its 6th UDRP complaint for the domain name imod.com. The slaps keep coming their way. Just this week they …

Michael Gleissner owner of several companies such as Bigfoot, Fashion One Television, and CKL Holdings lost its 5th UDRP complaint for the domain name flammea.com. The complaint was brought at WIPO and it was against …

Meet Marco Notarnicola and his huge range of skills including “manipulation of TMs and common law marks to achieve UDRP “reverse domain name hijacking””, exploitation of legal instruments and trying to defend oppositions and cancellation …

A company from Belgium named ‘CKL Holdings N.V. naamloze vennootschap (nv)’ has applied for about 68 trademarks at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Most of the applications were made in the past few months and …

ICANN announced the publication of the Draft Report of the Independent Review of the Trademark Clearinghouse. Specific considerations related to the matching criteria, Trademark Claims service and Sunrise period are assessed in the review, conducted by …

Nominet, the .UK registry, released an annual summary of domain name disputes brought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) in 2015. A total of 728 complaints were made to Nominet in 2015, just two more …

In February of this year Donuts announced its newly minted “trusted notifier” program with the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA”). It was the first arrangement of its kind in the domain name industry made …

ICANN is posting for public comment the proposed amendment to the .COM Registry Agreement with Verisign. This proposal is a result of discussions between ICANN and Verisign, Inc. and will extend the .com registry agreement …

Joe Styler, GoDaddy’s Aftermarket Product Manager, issued a warning on NamePros about a new phishing email targeting owners of valuable domain names registered with GoDaddy. These kind of phishing emails are not uncommon so people …

Tucows filed an Ontario lawsuit to halt the transfer of the domain name Hayter.com and to stop the UDRP proceedings. Tucows, an ICANN accredited registrar, is also the owner of a big portfolio of domain …

There is a new domain name appraisal scam out and it is better than the last one I saw. It is a combined domain valuation and a “trademark infringement varification ” scam. The scammer first …

Please beware of domain “broker” Andy Kelly, CEO of UpMarketDNs.com. He presents himself as a broker of several domain names that he has no authority to do so. He contacted me about a 1-word .com …