Archive for the 'Domainers, Domain Tasting, Cybersquatting' Category

Cybersquatting the Microsoft Brand: Getting Tough on Trademark Infringement

There has been significant commentary recently on bulletin boards and within the domainer community about Microsoft Corporation’s stepped-up online brand protection efforts. Microsoft has been aggressively pursuing any and all domain registrants who have registered domains incorporating any of the…

Domain Parking Pages to Be Excluded From Google’s Advertising Network?

The following news story has been posted without confirmation. Even so, how long will it be before Google and Yahoo eliminate certain domains from its network in order to get click fraud under control. At the recent T.R.A.F.F.I.C Conference in…

Domainers Can’t Have It Both Ways: Until Blatant Cybersquatters Are Exterminated, All Domainers Will Suffer

It has always amazed me that domainers take such umbrage to the UDRP, ACPA and other cybersquatting provisions, while doing nothing to provide disincentives for these laws to exist. I don’t know what the actual percentages are, but the number…

More Cybersquatted Domain Names for Your Buck With One UDRP Complaint

Rule 3(c) of the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy states, “The complaint may relate to more than one domain name, provided that the domain names are registered by the same domain-name holder.” This means that if a…