Posted by domain reporter on July 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
In an article by stock analysis site, Trefis, which bills itself as a site that “helps you understand how company’s products impact its stock price “, said today that VeriSign “is on the verge of losing an antitrust lawsuit filed by Coalition For ICANN Transparency (CFIT), a non-profit organization that represents website owners.” “A CFIT …
Posted by domain reporter on July 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
In a WIPO decision released yesterday a domain of generic term , TractorSupply.mobi, was given to the Trademark holder . Here are the facts of the case: “Complainant or its predecessors have operated a retail business under the TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY service mark since 1938.” It has adopted several versions of the service mark, including TRACTOR SUPPLY, TRACTOR SUPPLY CO. AND TSC. ” Complainant has a federally registered service mark for TRACTOR SUPPLY CO. ” Complainant…
Posted by domain reporter on July 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
In a civil lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of New York’s Allegany County last month, Ceglia vs. Zuckerberg & Facebook, , Paul Ceglia said he signed a contract with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 to develop and design a website called TheFacebook.com (I like the sound of that better). A New York judge’s recently granted an …
Posted by domain reporter on July 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
While URDP are decided daily its pretty rare to find a Federal Court decision involving domain names and ever rarer to find a court that rules in favor of the domain name holder, but that’s exactly what happened in the case of TOYOTA MOTOR SALES U.S.A., INC. v. TABARI a decision just released on Thursday by the Ninth Circuit for the United States Court of Appeals. In that case …
Posted by domain reporter on July 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
I been reviewing the lawsuit that John Zuccarini filed this week against NameJet.com, NetworkSolutions, Enom.com and VeriSign. (pdf) Here is some quick background. There were 14 domains that were owned by Zuccarini, but held by a Receiver which managed the domains on behalf of a creditor of Zuccarini, which were auctioned off by NameJet.com for a total of $…