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Steve Levy ⬥ 15 December I recently read through an interesting domain name dispute that highlights some important issues concerning appropriate use of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The UDRP was adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1999 as a means of addressing and resolving the […]

Phil Lodico ⬥ 14 December You’ve heard of brands buying their competitors’ brand names as keywords in Google’s AdWords program.  According to a recent TechCrunch article, the practice has spread to Twitter’s Promoted Tweets feature: HP has “bought” Apple’s hash tag.  In other words, HP has paid to have its promoted tweets appear when users

Josh Bourne ⬥ 21 December Just four more days until Christmas.  People are finishing up their shopping, wrapping gifts and, apparently, looking for Christmas online. According to Compete, traffic to the domain name Christmas.com increased by over 243 percent in November.  There is no real content on Christmas.com, just a bunch of pay-per-click advertisements.  The

FairWinds Partners ⬥ 29 November Despite the mayhem that could result from the release of unlimited new TLDs, it is undeniable that there are some pretty interesting possibilities. I was thinking the other day about how cool a .APP extension could be – if done properly of course. It could dramatically enhance the market for

Josh Bourne ⬥ 24 November Canon, the popular camera maker, has recently launched a project titled Your Second Shot.  The goal of the project is to recapture special moments that were “lost” – namely, that resulted in dark, blurry photographs because of low lighting.  The project centers around Canon’s new HS SYSTEM technology, which is

Steve Levy ⬥ 15 November A controversial domain name dispute over ErgonomicDesigns.com recently came to my attention. Ergonomic Designs Limited, the Complainant, filed the complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against Stylish Solutions Limited, the Respondent. The result of the dispute was a transfer. As someone who is very familiar with and sees

Josh Bourne ⬥ 9 November The McRib is back.  For the first time in 16 years, McDonald’s is offering its boneless pork patty sandwich at restaurants nationwide for approximately six weeks.  And people are thrilled. The McRib was first introduced to the McDonald’s menu in 1981, but since 1994, it has not been offered at

Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 29 October Here at the FairWinds office, we decided that instead of dressing up in Halloween costumes for work today, it would be even funnier if we all showed up dressed like Josh Bourne. From all of us at FairWinds, Happy Hallo— oh hold on, we just got an email. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 

Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 28 October As the smoke clears from the news about students setting up a DMT lab in a Georgetown University dorm, this little bud of trippy drug news appeared in the NY Times: enterprising individuals are rushing to register marijuana-related domain names as California gets set to vote on a ballot proposition

Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 25 October Last week, Facebook and Bingannounced a new facet to their partnership (if you use Facebook’s search bar, you’ll notice that the results page displays a section of “Web Results” presented by Bing).  For Facebook users, Bing will now incorporate information from Facebook into its search results.   Here’s how it

Liz Sweezey ⬥ 16 November On November 7, some of us here at FairWinds had the opportunity to attend a taping of Meet the Press, an American news and politics show.  Yvette Miller, Elizabeth Cummings and I, along with Robin Levy of Alston + Bird, a law firm FairWinds frequently works with, got to visit

Steve Levy ⬥ 14 October LA UDRP Panelist has, once again, sharply lambasted CitizenHawk for its mishandling of a complaint on behalf of one of its clients.  The Panelist went so far as to find the client, Tiny Prints, Inc., guilty of “reverse domain name hijacking” (RDNH). Tiny Prints, Inc. v. Oceanside Capital Corp. c/o