Olympic fight : I’m not a cybersquatter, says geodomain investor
A case involving a man apparently investing in geographical domains, and the almighty International Olympic Committee is unfolding. Stephen Frayne, Jr. of City Pure LLC, asserts that he had no ulterior motives when he registered more than 1,000 domains bearing the names of cities – plus a year suffix. A federal judge in Houston, Texas, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Cybersquatting : It should not be controlled by the US Congress
The problem of cybersquatting as it applies to domains, isn’t new. ICANN started dealing with such violations in 1999, introducing the UDRP process on April 30th of that year. Although 17 years have passed since, many domain investors continue to fail the cybersquatting test, with regards to the domain registrations of choice. An article from […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese Cybersquatter plays the “great firewall” card in massive Facebook UDRP
By violating a famous brand’s trademarks, one has to be extremely creative in defending their deed. In the case of a Chinese domain registrant who registered a bunch of Instagram domain typos, the argument was rather weak. Facebook and its daughter company, Instagram, filed a UDRP at the WIPO, for the following domains: facebookenespanol.com faecdook.com […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Canadian politics : Halifax councillor releases cybersquatted domains
All is fair in love and war, and the latter incorporates politics. A Canadian councillor was apparently ill-advised, when she registered the full name of a political opponent. Halifax Regional councillor, Linda Mosher, initially registered the domains shawncleary.com and shawncleary.ca, as part of her political strategy. Shawn Cleary is the name of a political opponent, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Franky Zapata : Flyboard inventor gets .com domain via UDRP
Flyboard is a fun activity, utilizing a water-propelled “jetpack” and its French inventor is Franky Zapata. The Flyboard was created in 2012, according to Wikipedia; Franky Zapata failed to register his full name, FrankyZapata.com, at the time, so someone else did. Franky Zapata registered the .FR variant in mid 2014, and a Florida chap named […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Citi.land UDRP : Don’t mess with trademarks and gTLDs
Riding on famous trademarks by registering alternate domains, is a bad choice regardless of TLD. Especially marks that form brands that stand out internationally, and offering these domains for sale to the trademark holder. That’s the epitome of cybersquatting. In a UDRP case involving the domain Citi.land, the Complainant was Citigroup Inc., holders of the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domains NOT to register: StarWars.Academy
This past weekend at the movie theaters there was not a single movie worth mentioning. Everyone is getting ready for the big premiere of Star Wars – The Force Awakens. Star Wars is a famous trademark of Lucas Films, and an intellectual property of Disney. Still, people will go register domain names infringing on major […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa domain auction : Why would you want to be a Cybersquatter?
Cybersquatter. The infamous ‘C’ word has been used by media around the world for a full two decades, to describe both the lawful possession and investment in domains, and the dark, infringing side of domaining. Squatting on domain names is synonymous with the notion that somehow whoever registered a domain first has full rights to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Hank Alvarez to open academy for ‘domain squatting’
Forget about domain schools and universities that teach you how to make ‘honest money’ with domains. Hank Alvarez, the notorious domain auction manipulator who drove many investors crazy at SnapNames, is shifting the paradigm of domainer education. Alvarez, whose domain consulting web site is at HankAlvarez.com, has been working on a new teaching principle, leveraging […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Soundsquatting : Homophone domain name registrations the next big thing?
Cybersquatting is so 20th century. Welcome to the new trend in domain registrations: soundsquatting. Defined as the use of similar sounding letters to seemingly circumvent the direct issues arising from the registration of trademarks, soundsquatting utilizes homophones for that purpose. For example: YewTube, EweTube and the classic MikeRoweSoft, are all soundsquatting samples; these domains are […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain Discovery : Death to Domain Squatters!
Every day we discover something new, and at the end of a very busy Monday, this little domain discovery pays off. Domain squatting is bad, but is it bad enough for someone to proclaim “Death To Domain Squatters“? We aren’t sold on that notion, but the domain name DeathToDomainSquatters.com appears to be a dispenser of […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domains & trademarks: When you say you’ll write reviews, don’t offer it for sale
A sad case of domainer stupidity unfolded during the decision for the UDRP against the domain AUDI.Reviews. Brought to WIPO by Audi AG of Ingolstadt, Germany, the domain was challenged on the basis of its use – or lack thereof. The Respondent alleged that he registered the domain in good faith, intending to write reviews […]
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