Yvette Miller ⬥ 28 January Hopefully you all survived the great Google outage on Friday with minimal damage: Unfortunately, Google’s Site Engineering Reliability Team was conducting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” chat at the time of the outage and took a reputational hit as participants ragged on the team’s the poorly timed chat. For the […]
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Steve Levy ⬥ 27 January In 2003, a predecessor of the Just Bulbs lighting company filed and lost a UDRP case against the domain <justbulbs.com> because the respondent agreed to only advertise flower bulbs at the website and so had a legitimate interest in the domain. Fast-forward to 2013 and the website at this domain
Yvette Miller ⬥ 21 January President Obama’s announced reforms for the National Security Agency (NSA) have been a mixed bag for those who may have been looking for stronger reins on the agency’s data gathering programs. As Wired reports, tech companies will have more leeway to disclose government requests for data, and there will be
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Yvette Miller ⬥ 9 December As the year draws to a close, 34 new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) – extensions like .BRANDs and .CITIES that will join the likes of .COM and .ORG – have been incorporated into the technical foundation of the Internet. Applicants for .BRANDs have now seen draft contract language that addresses
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FairWinds Partners — November 26, 2013 ICANN’s 48th Public Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, marked an important transition point for the organization and for all members of the ICANN community. Community members as well as ICANN staff have focused for the past several meetings on the successful implementation of the New gTLD Program. But by
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Steve Levy ⬥ 25 November A recent UDRP case featured a complainant who was definitely taking a shot in the dark by trying to get the domain name calibers.com. The complaint was filed with the National Arbitration Forum by Calibers National Shooters Sports Center, LC against W. D. Group Ltd. The main issues with this
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Yvette Miller ⬥ 25 November ICANN48 in Buenos Aires has wrapped up, but if you haven’t been keeping a close eye on our tweets or blogs, here is a quick look at the landscape as the dust settles: The buzz is all about the future of Internet governance, which gained momentum after the Montevideo statement
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Yvette Miller ⬥ 18 November As new TLD applicants and the ICANN community attend sessions at the 48th ICANN Meeting in Buenos Aires, ICANN is working to push as many applicants as possible through Contracting and Delegation. To date, 24 top-level domains (TLDs) have been incorporated into the technical architecture of the Internet. That’s more
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Steve Levy ⬥ 18 November A recent UDRP case highlights the fine line between aggressive trademark enforcement and reverse domain name hijacking. J Vineyard & Winery, L.P. (complainant) filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) against David Perelman/Perloff inc. (respondent) over the domain name jwines.com. The complainant in this case should have known
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Steve Levy ⬥ October 28 UDRP panelists almost never deny a UDRP complaint based on a laches defense. As I have discussed in past blog posts, laches is a legal doctrine that can provide a defense when an adverse party has been unreasonably delayed in asserting its rights and its reliance on that delay results
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Josh Bourne ⬥ October 23 The launch of the online portal for the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been riddled with problems. Unfortunately, those who look for help elsewhere on the web may run into even more problems. FairWinds Partners surveyed the domain name space and found 22 registered domains that are
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Steve Levy ⬥ October 21 A recent UDRP complaint filed by Tesco Stores Limited could have interesting implications for the future of brand protection in new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The complaint, filed by Tesco Stores Limited against Mat Feakins, was filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization over the domain name tes.co, resulting in