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By Steve Levy We’ve all heard of patent trolls and perhaps trademark or copyright trolls but I’ve only ever considered the idea of a UDRP troll in the ...

By Steve Levy It’s not uncommon to pull on a thread and end up with an entire ball of yarn. And so it occasionally happens with domain name ...

By Steve Levy Back in the mid to late 90s, when use of the internet was just gaining popularity, brand owners started becoming aware of domain names that ...

By Steve Levy In UDRP cases there are a few “frequent flyers” – habitual cybersquatters who keep coming back again and again. Successful in monetizing their domain names ...

By Steve Levy After about 30 years of watching cybersquatting flourish, I’d have thought that most typo domain names had been taken or transferred to their assertive brand ...

By Jeanette Eriksson   Platforms like Roblox allow millions of users to create, share, and monetize their own virtual experiences. However, this increase in user-generated content can also ...

By Steve Levy Way back near the dawn of the 21st century, before the tsunami that was to become known as “social media” crashed upon the shores of ...

By Steve Levy A couple of recent UDRP decisions have highlighted the issue of what’s within the scope of, and appropriate for the policy and what disputes are ...

By Steve Levy Not all domain name disputes need to end up as UDRP complaints. Although it’s become more of a challenge since the adoption of the GDPR – which ...

By Steve Levy You know that an issue has grown to a substantial size when it makes it into The Wall Street Journal. For many years now, FairWinds ...

By Steve Levy In all the years I’ve been filing UDRP complaints, there had only been a couple of cases where I’ve encountered evidence that was blatantly manufactured ...

By Steve Levy Do you really know the nuts and bolts of what goes into a successful UDRP case? Let’s start with the basics. There’s the Policy itself, the ...