Monday - 30 June, 2008Domain name policyProfessor Manara has a link to Gretchen Olive's piece in Managing IP 10 Steps to an effective domain name policy ... Wednesday - 02 April, 2008WIPO UDRP reviewWIPO has published its review of the operation of the UDRP for 2007 ... Tuesday - 11 March, 2008Domain name searching/comparingProf. Manara reports on Ofido which lets you compare prices, and to some extent, features when you are trying to register a domain name ... Friday - 07 March, 2008Risks in bringing a UDRP complaintApart from the obvious "egg on face" risk of losing and the terrifying sanction of being found to be a reverse domain name hijacker, Circle ID argues that in some cases bringing a speculative UDRP complaint against a UK citizen who registered a domain name through a UK based registrar may expose the complainant and its lawyers to actions in the UK: (1) for malicious defamation; and/or (2) for unjustified threats of trade mark infringement ... Tuesday - 05 February, 2008MySpace.co.ukAn arbitrator under the UK (Nominet's) private dispute resolution service has awarded the domain name myspace.co.uk to "MySpace" even though the registrant had registered the domain name in 1997 - many years before MySpace came into existence ... Friday - 25 January, 2008Domain name book and conferenceIn association with the much anticipated launch of David Lindsay's book on International Domain Name Law, Monash Uni. is holding a seminar on Domain Name Law and Regulation ... Wednesday - 21 November, 2007Domain names and typosquattingMcAfee has an interesting study on typosquatting, which it concludes is on the rise, and a stylised representation of why it pays ... Wednesday - 14 November, 2007Domain names and the Coase theoremIn an online "conversation" of blogs, the Freakeconomist, Steve Levitt, and the MBS' Prof. Gans explore the the application of the Coase theorem to the allocation (or rather ownership) of domain names ... Monday - 15 October, 2007Domain name resourcesMarty Schwimmer at the Trademark Blog and Prof. Manara at Domain Name/Nom de Domaine! have links to some interesting domain name resources ... Monday - 17 September, 2007DomainingThe art or science (or in some cases verging on holding up to ransom) of giving up your day job and making a living buying and selling domain names. The aptly named Domain Predator provides an extensive "how to" ... Friday - 31 August, 2007Searching for typosquattersPatently-O has found a search engine which helps you track typosquatters on your domain name ... Thursday - 26 July, 2007Are new TLDs just another wealth transfer vehicle?CircleID reports that there are about 16% active .eu domain names, now we are more than a year after the launch of .eu. By comparison, .ie has 57% active domain names ... Thursday - 17 August, 2006You cannot convert a domain name Down Underor, for that matter, a range of internet
protocol addresses or and "autonomous" system
number.
Puns intended. Thursday - 04 May, 2006Stats on domain namesAll the 2 and 3 letter combinations in
.com have already been registered. As of 28 March, there were still 97,786 4
letter combinations available ...
Wednesday - 19 April, 2006.mobi sunriseThe latest
new
gTLD (i.e. little sister to .com, .org, .biz et al) .mobi is about to go into
the sunrise registration period ...
Monday - 03 April, 2006Tesco in a MillionTesco has successfully sued Elogicom in
the UK for registering a range of domain names like
<tesco2you.com>.
Friday - 10 March, 2006What to pay for a domain namevia Nom de Domaine, a link to all
reported domain name sales over US$10,000 in 2005 ...
Saturday - 28 January, 2006WIPO report on UDRP for 2005WIPO has released a short summary of its
UDRP-related activities for 2005.
Wednesday - 25 January, 2006.edu.auvia Domain Name/Nom de Domain, AICTEC has issued a
discussion paper on proposals to update the policies governing the
administration of .edu.au.
Thursday - 19 January, 2006What happened to your homework on the way to school?This website attempts to collect some of
the more entertaining, if not exactly enterprising, explanations for how UDRP
respondent's domain names came to (oh so closely) resemble someone else's trade
mark.
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