Cybersquatting in Narnia – Goliath Wins
A few weeks ago, I wrote a rather harsh assessment of Richard Saville-Smith, the registrant of narnia.mobi. He sent me a pretty spirited defense of his position and complained that
A few weeks ago, I wrote a rather harsh assessment of Richard Saville-Smith, the registrant of narnia.mobi. He sent me a pretty spirited defense of his position and complained that
This is an updated and corrected version of an earlier post. Richard Saville-Smith says that he bought the domain name narnia.mobi for his 11 year old son as a birthday
More than once, Domain Tools’ domain history has proven quite useful to me in domain disputes. It is always nice to be able to show a panel that the respondent
Any web savvy lawyer knows the value of the Internet Wayback Machine. This website contains a historical directory of web pages, as they appeared on a given date in time.
Two weeks ago, in Is Godaddy a Mass Cybersquatter?, I discussed pay-per-click sites: The ubiquitous “sponsored links” pages that have become the cockroaches of the internet. Perhaps one day they
World Wide Commerce Corporation (“WWC”) registered its domain name, www.worldwidecommerce.com eleven years ago. Unfortunately, the registration inadvertently lapsed. A domain vulture immediately snapped it up and offered it up for
We have all bumped into pay-per-click sites while looking for actually useful information. You know these sites. You type in a domain name, fully expecting to find a useful website,
We have all bumped into pay-per-click sites while looking for actually useful information. You know these sites. You type in a domain name, fully expecting to find a useful website,
New York Times Reports: A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears By ADAM LIPTAK Steve Marshall is an English travel agent. He lives in Spain, and he sells
I have previously blogged that 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d) and 15 U.S.C. § 1129 apply to personal names. The Western District of Virginia and the Third Circuit appeared to agree
If you type in “debts.com” for example, you get a site filled with nothing but paid links to other sites. Presumably, this is not what someone going to that page