tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186133800077628472012-02-08T05:09:29.504-05:00Domain Name Lawyer, Zak Muscovitch, writes about domain name disputes and Internet law issues of current interest, related to http://www.DNattorney.com and http://www.muscovitch.comZak Muscovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08424149765617740825noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-818613380007762847.post-79346315639520908802012-01-09T13:17:00.001-05:002012-01-09T13:31:32.465-05:00

About once a month or more, I get a phone call that goes like this: Caller: I am a domain name investor. I just got into "the business". I registered about 300 great and valuable domain names, and need some help in selling them and some legal advice. Domain Name Lawyer: Thanks for calling me. Tell me about the names. Caller: Well, I found this company called Godaddy that allows you to register

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NATIONAL ARBITRATION FORUM DECISION Electronic Arts Inc. v. Abstract Holdings International LTD / Sherene Blackett Claim Number: FA1111001415905 PARTIES Complainant is Electronic Arts Inc. (“Complainant”), represented by Eugene M. Pak of Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean, LLP, California, USA. Respondent is Abstract Holdings International LTD / Sherene Blackett (“Respondent”), represented by Zak

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Released October 11, 2011. NATIONAL ARBITRATION FORUM DECISION Google Inc. v. Goggle.com, Inc. Claim Number: FA1108001403690 PARTIES Complainant is Google, Inc. (“Complainant”), represented by Gavin L. Charlston of Cooley LLP, California, USA. Respondent is Goggle.com, Inc. (“Respondent”), represented by Zak Muscovitch of The Muscovitch Law Firm, Ontario, Canada. REGISTRAR AND DISPUTED

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Just got word from WIPO that the UDRP over TDS.COM was decided unanimously in favour of the registrant. This is good news for generic domain name holders. Helps to have a domain name lawyer on yours side sometimes... This was an interesting case where the registrant was the long-standing admin for the domain name on behalf of his employer. There was contemporaneous email correspondence entered

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'Lagging' Canadian Internet Commerce to Be Focus of Domain Name Election

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John Selby, with the Department of Business Law at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia, brought to my attention his truly excellent article and study of ICANN UDRP Dispute Resolution Providers. This article was published in 2004, and the concerns outlined therein are even more important today, given that the Czech Arbitration Court apparently intends to provide so-called 'fast track' UDRP's

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Today I released a brief study of NAF decisions, and panelist participation levels in particular. I also created a system for people to receive NAF Case Updates in their email box, similar to the way that WIPO sends them out. Hopefully NAF will do this themselves in the future and at that time I can stop the Update service.

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But its not what you think.... In this Ottawa Citizen story, Canadian, Frank Fowlie, ombudsman for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), was flying from Paris to Montreal last March when he had an angry confrontation with a flight attendant in executive class. The story states that, "He filed a complaint with the CTA, alleging Air Canada breached the terms and

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Journalist Christopher Guly has written an excellent piece on the UDRP and how it is at the vanguard of online alternative dispute resolution. In this article, Mr. Guly discusses the Groovle.com case and interviews me about the case and about the UDRP.

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In this concerning article from the National Post, journalist Matt Hartley, reports that Google's Canadian born CFO, Patrick Pichette, "has a unique view of the business landscape in his home country of Canada." Mr. Hartley reports that, "although Canadians spend more time online than just about any other nation in the world, advertising dollars and marketers haven't followed audiences online

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WIPO UDRP Panelist, Jonathan Turner, deserves kudos for authoring a fine decision which makes excellent use of appropriate and highly relevant case law, in the aidsdrugsonline.com case (February 5, 2010). He wrote as follows in this case brought by a Canadian against a Californian, wherein the Complainant alleged that the Respondent was a "cybersquatter": "The more descriptive the term, the

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You can watch the interview with Groovle.com co-founder Jacob Fuller and myself from New Year's Eve, 2009.

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Just heard from the National Arbitration Forum that my clients won a great domain name dispute over GROOVLE.COM. Google had complained that my clients were "cybersquatters". The unanimous three distinguished three member panel disagreed. You can read the decision here. Congrats to Groovle.com! This was one of those rare UDRP cases where the Panel didn't even have to consider the second and

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Looking forward to going to Targeted Traffic in Vegas January 21 - 23, DomainFest Global 2010 January 26-29 in Santa Monica , and Traffic again in Vancouver - June 8 - 10, 2010. Although I have been an active and somewhat accomplished domain name lawyer for 10 years, this will be my first outside-Canada domain conference. I have of course always attended Frank Michlick's DomainConvergence

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For those of you who follow professional poker tournaments on television, you may recall the name of Butch Boyd, a somewhat colorful poker pro. Well, he was recently the target of a domain name cease and desist letter over the domain name, twoplustwopoker.com. The claimant is Twoplustwo.com (i.e. without the "poker" suffix), which calls itself the world's largest poker strategy and resource web

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An IDNForums.com member recently asked me a good question and I took the time to answer it. I thought that I would share my answer here, although I have of course removed the specifics from the situation and changed some facts to keep things confidential. Accordingly, the domains etc. referred to below are made-up for illustrative purposes only. If anyone has any thoughts on this I would like to

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One thing that we will see more often are family law disputes involving domain names. When marriages break up, family property is often divided by the court. In a recent divorce case, a Vancouver, British Columbia Supreme Court Judge heard evidence from a business valuator, whose testimony was considered expert evidence on behalf of the husband. The expert business valuator was asked by the

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I commenced a lawsuit to overturn a recent UDRP decision over EHOTEL.COM. Many commentators thought that this was a grossly unfair UDRP decision and begged for an appeal. The domain name registrant was unrepresented at the UDRP. Now with a domain name lawyer, I hope that he will obtain some justice.

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Congratulations to Rick Silver, who has just been appointed the new Moderator for 2010 Traffic conferences. Rick has been a good friend and client for many years and it is wonderful to see that his unique talents have been recognized. He will be a valuable addition to the conferences and a tremendous resource for domainers. PS - I will be attending my first traffic conference in Las Vegas in

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Nice to see that some trademark lawyers are kept busy with doubtful domain name dispute claims. The American Automobile Association lost a domain name dispute at NAF, and now apparently pressured the registrant to hand over the domain name after commencing a Federal lawsuit. Of course AAA is more than the American Automobile Association. Just check out any yellow pages directory, such as this

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The following ADNDRC press release was brought to my attention by IDNFORUMS.COM members. Announcement on Domain Name Dispute Cases Handled by The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (Hong Kong Office) Hong Kong. 5 October 2009 - The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) announced today that the ADNDRC Council has formed a special committee to investigate whether, in view

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Could Chris Bosh Be a Future ICANN UDRP Respondent at WIPO or NAF? So I read the news item where Toronto Raptors NBA star Chris Bosh won a judgment for $120,000 against a domainer, Luis Zavala (Hoopology.com) for registering ChrisBosh.com. The judgment apparently came down in April, but now Bosh's lawyers reportedly convinced the judge to order that the domainer's 800 other mainly sports and

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The Montreal, Quebec Court released an interim and partial injunction regarding the domain name SPCA.COM according to CTV News, but the domain name registrant is allowed to keep it, at least for now, pending the outcome of a trial involving other issues such as wrongful dismissal and defamation. The domain name registrant was reportedly permitted to keep the domain name but must direct donations

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Privacy Protection for domainers who have legitimate portfolios is a little like a burka on a bikini model. Although keeping one's domain name registration details private is an attractive concept and may even help wary registrants avoid imparting too much information to prospective domain name dispute claimants, in my humble opinion, the practice is a business killer in the .CA realm. As a

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This should be interesting. I will check it out. See the Press Release here. The newly launched service, called Domainer`s Advantage, offers domain investors a comprehensive knowledge center.

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SLIDETV.com, Inc. today declared victory in its domain name dispute with Slide, Inc. in what has been described as a modern day David vs. Goliath story. The Redwood City, California-based internet marketing company now plans to turn the drama into a feature film.....Which is strange for two reasons: First, this UDRP dispute was back in August, so its a little late to "declare victory". Second,

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Just a quick note to mention that journalism student Daniel Fish wrote a piece for his student newspaper at Carleton, The Charlatan, on a recent court case involving York University and anonymous emails..."Online communication not as anonymous as it seems". I provided Daniel with some thoughts on the subject. Always glad to help students out....

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Remember "Convergence"? It was the concept where all modes of communications were to become unified...., or alternatively, "media convergence is a concept in which old and new media intersect". Well, nobody announced it, but we are already there and have been for some time.... I realized this when I heard that the police are being trained by consultants about how to use social networking

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Well, that must suck for Wizz Air, the Hungarian discount airliner..... Panelist Sebastian Hughes provided an exceptionally well-reasoned and fair decision in a Complaint brought by the airliner against Texas Wizzair critic, Holden Thomas, proprietor of WizzAirSucks.com. Although the Panelist found that, "the addition of the word “sucks” as a suffix in the disputed domain name does little to

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Canada's Globe and Mail reported today that "Edmonton-based blogger Dave Cournoyer pointed out on his blog Thursday night that the website stephenharper.com is actually a link to a portal for adult personals, replete with images of women clad in black lingerie and stiletto heels."  *****[The Story seems to have been removed by the  Glober now...weird...Maybe because it was inaccurate or for some

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In an ICANN WIPO UDRP decision released today, the Complaint brought against the registrant (represented by me) of ARMOURGAMES.COM was dismissed by UDRP Panelist Alistair Payne. The Panelist found, inter alia, that the domain name registrant had a legitimate interest in the domain name because he registered it after conceiving of the domain name, and before the Complainant had used the American

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In a remarkable decision by the Federal Court of Canada dated, January 9, 2009, the Honourable Madam Justice Simpson brilliantly dismissed an unmeritorious claim against a domain name owner - even though the domain name owner didn't even defend. The publisher of a local Toronto Iranian-Canadian newspaper, called Salam Toronto, had brought an action for trademark infringement against the domain

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In an entertaining domain name decision from the Nunavut Court of Justice dated September 10, 2009, the Honourable Mr. Justice E. Johnson, described a domain name dispute as similar to "Cool Hand Luke": "Stout described the litigation by using a movie analogy. He called it a Runaway Train. I believe a better movie to describe it is Cool Hand Luke. In one scene, the strong-willed prisoner, played

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I was on Global News (Canadian national tv newscast); interviewed about the recent Facebook take-downs of member pages. You can watch the segment here. Here is an update of the news story... Interesting Internet legal issue for me considering my recent experience with moderation, as per my below posts. This is the big issue: Facebook has 300 million members in its "community". Likewise,

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Forum Moderators are the often unsung heroes of the Internet world. They often commit themselves to supervising an important forum community for little, or more usually, no pay at all. They keep things humming along, remove bad posts, keep things on topic, enforce the rules, answer questions, and help out users. By and large, forum moderators are indispensable and generous people. Nevertheless,

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I wonder if anybody has run into what I consider to be amongst the most annoying and disheartening of phenomena on the Internet: Overzealous Forum Moderators. A couple examples... One of the two probematic forums that I have come across is Chowhound. Seems like some mods there are on a powertrip, and capriciously and arbitrarily in my opinion, delete posts that people put hard work into. That

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I wanted to take a moment to profusely thank a couple of my fellow Bloggers who have warmly welcomed me to the "blogosphere" and took the time to link to my blog and say some very nice and generous things about me. Robert Borhi, author of DomainReport.ca, who I have never met but look forward to meeting. He generously gave me a very nice mention on his web site. I found Robert's blog to include

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This interesting news item reported by the CBC indicates that a legal opinion obtained in the course of a European Union proceeding, stated that Google Inc. does not violate luxury goods makers' trademarks when it sells brand names as advertising keywords triggered by internet searches. How sweet it is. The $2500 purse lobby thinks that Google should police their valuable marks, i.e. determine

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The State of Kentucky is still apparently vigourously pursuing its attempt to seize the domain names of various out of state internet casino operators. I was stunned to see that the Governor had actually retained private attorneys on a contingency fee basis to pursue the claim, thereby avoiding paying legal fees out of government coffers. This type of manoeuvre inserts a rare dynamic into

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An interesting news story reveals that China is ranks first in trademark applications, amongst all the world. According to The Peoples Daily, "As of September 15, this year 1.005 million applications for trademark registration in China have been reviewed, up 153 percent year-on-year. The figure, covering eight and a half months, equals that of the previous three years and three months, marking

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A BC Court of Appeal decision added a measure of security for web site developers who link to material that may be defamtory, according to this story, which reported the decision that apparently stated that merely linking is not sufficeint to be found liable for online defamation. Congratulations to John Newton of P2Pnet on his great victory! Domain name and web site owners should be relieved

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Yet another case of someone going to court to get the ID's of anonymous emailers/bloggers/posters. I was interviewed on CBC's The National on one of these cases. This is starting to be a regular occurance... It may start happening so much that Google establishes its own "court system"...all online... Would be like an ICANN arbitration  over a domain name dispute at the National Arbitration

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As a domain name attorney, I see it happen all the time in ICANN UDRP's; the Complainant has registered a descriptive domain name and then complains when someone else registers a similar descripitve domain name. It is a fundamental principle of trademark law, which ultimately governs domain name disputes, that one cannot have a monopoly on a descriptive term as that would prevent people from

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The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games Organizing Committe (VANOC) has posted a "trademark infringement calculator" of sorts on its web site....Very strange, but it purports to demonstrate, with a "points system", what will be considered trademark infringement and liable for enforcement, and what doesn't. Of course VANOC gets to determine how many points to give someone, so this "calculator" isnt

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If you think your domain name was registered a long time ago, check out SYMBOLICS.COM.... According to this story, this domain name was first registered in 1985 (!) and was the first domain name to be registered - EVER - and is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Since then, over 200 million domain names have been registered, according to this Times UK story. I remember the first time I ever

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The Montreal Gazette is reporting an interesting and serious domain name dispute over SPCA.COM. Apparently, the former director of Montreal's local SPCA registered SPCA.COM back in 1996, and the Washington D.C. HQ of the international SPCA has been using the domain name since. Now, according to the story, the local Montreal SPCA is apparently arguing in court within the context of seeking an

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