07|05|2010 9:26 am EDT WIPO Panel Debates Definition of “Bad Faith” in UDRP Decision by Frank Michlick in Categories: Legal Issues – 0 Comments In a recent decision in the dispute for the domain name Evoq.com , the WIPO panel let the original registrant keep the domain name. However the 3-person panel did not agree how exactly the “bad faith” criteria should be applied. The panel was not clear whether it mattered if a domain name was registered in bad faith when compared to the complainant’s trademark, or if this criteria could be applied against any existing trademark

07|02|2010 4:41 pm EDT US Authorities Seize Domain Names of Download Sites by Frank Michlick in Categories: Legal Issues – 1 Comment Share Tags: Tags: .MUSIC , Department of Justice , domain names , download , files , Immagration and Customs Enforcement , movies , National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center , seize , Spiral Matrix . 1 Comment Cindy July 2, 2010 @ 5:24 pm EDT What a waste of gov’t resources.

05|04|2010 4:29 pm EDT Oversee Files Suit Against Nelson Brady for $33 Million in Damages by Adam Strong in Categories: Legal Issues – 1 Comment SnapNames, and its parent company, Oversee.net, announced today that they have filed suit against Nelson Brady in federal court in Oregon (Portland district).

03|30|2010 5:29 pm EDT Mike Mann Conditionally Agrees To Donate His Portion Of Sex.com To PETA by Adam Strong in Categories: Legal Issues – 0 Comments As if the whole saga of Sex.com being stolen and then given back to the original owner wasn’t a strange enough story, now Mike Mann, who is one of several reported owners of Sex.com, has agreed to donate his portion of the domain name to the animal rights activist group PETA. As Domain Name Wire points out , PETA is known for grabbing headlines by chiming in on hot topics with off the wall suggestions had suggested in a letter that the owners donate the domain to them.

03|17|2010 11:41 pm EDT Sex.com May Not Go to Auction Tomorrow, Involuntary Chapter 11 Filed by Frank Michlick in Categories: Legal Issues – 0 Comments According to Sedo and Mike Mann ( as reported by Elliot Silver ) the auction for Sex.com that is scheduled for tomorrow , may not take place after all. Both sources say that an Involuntary Chapter 11 was filed against Escom, LLC the company that owns the domain.

02|12|2010 1:56 pm EDT FaceBook Humor Site FailBooking.com Sues Owner of Better Domain Name For Framing Their Content by Adam Strong in Categories: Legal Issues – 0 Comments TechDirt covered a unique twist in domain name disputes last week.  Pet Holdings, Inc , the company behind wildly popular websites such as Icanhascheezburger.com, FailBlog.org and Failbooking.com, sued the owner of the domain name FailBook.com because the owner framed PHI’s FailBooking.com site on his FailBook.com domain and put a for sale banner on the top of the page. Failbook.com owner Cristian Castillo claims that he made a mistake framing the Failbooking.com content but was using it to demonstrate what the domain could be used for while attempting to sell it. Based on statistics sent to us by Castillo the domain seems to be generating around 10,000 unique visitors a day.

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