Legal

The Moscow Commercial Court ruled on January 15 to transfer the domain name Nike.Ru from businessman Stas Drugalyov, that heads the Caravan Telecom domain registrar, to Nike’s Russian office. Nike’s lawyer Anton Sergo stated in court …

Two brothers from Canada went against each other in a UDRP dispute at the National Arbitration Forum for the domain name Bousada.com. Panelist Beatrice Onica Jarka found that the dispute fell outside the scope of the …

The Boeing Company won the domain name wwwboeing.com after submitting a Complaint to the National Arbitration Forum. Respondent was Host for You c/o Vladimir Snezko from Russia. The domain wwwboeing.com redirects to a website containing …

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) website at mit.edu was hacked today by hacker group LulzSec in response to the death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was being prosecuted with the cooperation of M.I.T for illegall downloading …

The owner of Glasgow.com lost the domain name Glasgow-2014.com, that was registered in 2006, under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy at WIPO. The Complainant was Glasgow 2014 Limited that is organizing and operating …

Frank Schilling’s domain ColdFront.com gets a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ruling as John Berryhill gets this complaint dismissed at the National Arbitration Forum. The Complainant was formed in 2009 and filed for a USPTO registration of …

UDRP complaint for TheIDShop.com was dismissed at the National Arbitration Forum. The decision of the panel was that the Complaint should be barred by the doctrine of laches. Respondent raised the issue of laches as a …

A UDRP complaint was filed for the domain name Outdoor-Fitness.com at the National Arbitration Forum. NAF doesn’t reveal the Complainant before the decision is in but the most obvious Complainant is the owner of the …

Twitter, Inc filed a UDRP dispute with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the domain name twitter.org. The domain was registered in October 2005 and Twitter didn’t even exist as an idea at that …

Richemont International SA, owner of IWC watches, filed 7 UDRP complaints on a single day (10th of January 2013) with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. All complaints are related to their IWC trademark. Some of …

UDRP complaint for grief.net and grief-recovery.com was dismissed at the National Arbitration Forum. The decision of the panel was not to proceed with the UDRP because of a pending litigation. The three member Panel said …

A three member Panel denied the UDRP complaint for the domain name Guarani.com that a Brazilian company filed at WIPO. The Panel denied the complaint because there was nothing indicating that the Respondent in the US …

Panel denied the UDRP complaint for the domain name MyCadillac.com that General Motors made at WIPO. The Panel denied the complaint because the domain was used offering PPC links to the “Cadillac” geographic term only …

Marchex owned domain PetExpress.com gets a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ruling as John Berryhill gets this complaint dismissed at NAF. This must be the longest decision I have ever seen for the simple reason that …