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Milestone Reached: 300 UDRP Victories
By Josh Bourne FairWinds Partners recently marked our 300th successful Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) outcome, bringing our overall success rate to 99.75%. FairWinds has a long history ...
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Webinar: New gTLD Usage, Trends & Planning for 2018
By Josh Bourne Join us for a free webinar on January 16, 2018, to hear from Taylor Frank, Vice President at FairWinds, with regard to recent developments, analysis ...
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How Will GDPR Impact Your Brand In 2018?
By Emily Johns On December 6th, Chairwoman of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin submitted a letter to Cherine Chalaby and Goran Marby of ICANN, ...
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Highlights from 2017 and What to Expect as We Embark on 2018
By Josh Bourne 2017 proved to be an eventful year with the United States pulling back from ICANN, the advance of opportunistic practices by bad actors, and innovative ...
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Net Neutrality Vote Could Change the Playing Field for ISPs
By Abdul Khan According to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, the Obama era Net Neutrality rules that govern access to the Internet will be repealed ...
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Why Are You Making Me Do All This Extra Work?
For UDRP Panelists, some cases are very straightforward and obvious and it takes very little time to draft a decision. However, every once in a while, along comes ...
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Choosing a Domain Name as Unique as your Startup
By Lauren Tracey One of the many bumps along the road to success for startup businesses is, often after going through the process of choosing a domain name, ...
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Cyber Monday 2017: Fast Flux DNS and Other Cyber Threats to Brands
By Josh Bourne On November 23, 2016, FairWinds distributed Cyber Monday 2016: Typosquatting – A Threat to Brands and Consumers, a report on how typosquatting impacts 50 of ...
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The Rise of Direct-to-Consumer Digital Retail and Fashion
By Emily Johns Tamara Mellon — co–founder of Jimmy Choo and designer of her namesake shoe brand — thinks the fashion industry is going the way of the ...
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How Fast Flux DNS is Hurting Brands and How It Could Affect UDRP
By Steve Levy Domain name disputes may now pose more than simply a risk to one’s brand reputation. Rather than merely inputting a typo of your favorite brand ...
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Fraud in Financial Services New TLDs Less Prominent than in Other New Generic TLDs
By Josh Bourne Nearly 50 of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) launched through ICANN’s New gTLD Program directly relate to the banking industry. While certain financial services ...
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Webinar: Using the UDRP to Mitigate Malware Threats
By Emily Johns We all know the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) can be a faster and easier way to take ownership of a domain name. ...
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