Archive for the ‘Enforcement’ Category
Posted February 10th, 2012
From Domain Incite
The National Arbitration Forum has ordered the secret takedown of 12 .XXX domains since the adults-only gTLD launched in December.
NAF yesterday published statistics about the .xxx Rapid Evaluation Service (RES), which ICM Registry created and NAF exclusively administers.
Fifteen RES complaints have been filed since December 6, 12 of which have been resolved so far. All of the cases were won by the complainant — a trademark holder in 11 of the cases.
See the full skinny HERE.
Posted in Enforcement, gTLDS, NAF by Ken Taylor
Posted February 8th, 2012
From REUTERS
Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook “friends” to find missing persons and hunt out suspected criminals, according to the state’s interior minister.
The decision to use social media in manhunts follows the completion of a pilot scheme in the northern city of Hanover last year which drew sharp criticism from data protection groups.
The scheme helped police clear up six criminal investigations and two missing persons cases after identikits of suspects and stills from Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footage were circulated on the social networking site Facebook.
For the full story go HERE.
Posted in Enforcement, Social Networks by Ken Taylor
Posted February 6th, 2012
This from Nick Wood, friend and partner at Com Laude:
1. Go HERE for FAQ on “Legal Rights Objections under ICANN’s New gTLD Program — Filing a Legal Rights Objection at WIPO: What You Need To Know”
2. Go HERE for a WIPO Center-produced summary of “Trademark Rights Protection Mechanisms for New gTLDs”.
3. Go HERE for an updated page (a policy snapshot) on “WIPO Observations on New gTLD Dispute Resolution Mechanisms”.
Posted in Domain Names, Enforcement, gTLDS, WIPO by Ken Taylor
Posted January 11th, 2012
In a case brought under the Lanham Act, alleging cybersquatting, contributory cybersquatting, as well as claims of unfair competition, Plaintiff Petroliam Nasional Behad (“Petronas”) asserted that www.petronastower.net and www.petronastowers.net (registered by Go Daddy) were used by one or more non-parties to violate its trademark rights by cybersquatting.
See the full story HERE, HERE & HERE.
Posted in Cybersquatting, Enforcement, Intellectual Property, trademark issues by Ken Taylor
Posted January 4th, 2012
From domainnews
VIPINDIRIM has recently filed a lawsuit with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center over Markafoni.xxx domain name . According to WIPO,the domain name case started on December 29,2011.
According to whois records Markafoni.xxx domain name has been registered on December 6,2011 by Yasin Kaplan.
.XXX domain names became available for public sale on December 6,2011 .
Only one other .XXX domain name case has been filed until now .The case was filed with the National Arbitration Forum over Heb.xxx domain name .
Posted in Enforcement, gTLDS, WIPO by Ken Taylor
Posted October 24th, 2011
As reported by News.Dot-Nxt.com: “You wouldn’t think it was too much to ask: companies that sell domain names being required to put their physical address on their website, and provide an email address for law enforcement agencies to contact them if they see illegal activity.
But despite registrars apparently agreeing to do just that, the issue became a full-blown argument at a meeting between governments (the GAC) and the domain industry policy body, the GNSO, on the first day of the ICANN meeting in Dakar.”
Click HERE to read more.
Tags: Law Enforcement, Registrars
Posted in Enforcement by Kelly Hardy
Posted October 11th, 2011
As reported by TheRegister.co.uk: “VeriSign, which manages the database of all .com internet addresses, wants powers to shut down “non-legitimate” domain names when asked to by law enforcement.
The company said today it wants to be able to enforce the “denial, cancellation or transfer of any registration” in any of a laundry list of scenarios where a domain is deemed to be “abusive”.
Click HERE to read more.
Tags: Enforcement, Verisign
Posted in Enforcement by Kelly Hardy
Posted July 28th, 2011
As reported by Kevin Murphy of DomainIncite.com: “ICANN has asked the International Chamber of Commerce to rule that it has the right to terminate Employ Media’s .jobs contract.
It’s filed its response to Employ Media’s demand for arbitration over the disputed Universe.jobs service, which saw the registry vastly expand the .jobs space.
Employ Media “transcended the very intent behind creation of the TLD” with Universe.jobs, which allocated tens of thousands of .jobs domains to the DirectEmployers Association, ICANN said.
The organization wants the ICC to rule that it “may, but is not required to, terminate the Registry Agreement with Employ Media”, as it has already threatened.
Employ Media took ICANN to arbitration in May, after ICANN notified it that it was in breach of its registry agreement and they were not able to settle their differences in private talks.”
Click HERE to read the full article.
Tags: .jobs, ICANN
Posted in Enforcement, ICANN by Kelly Hardy
Posted July 13th, 2011
As reported by TheDomains.com: “According to a story in Xbiz.com, Hustler has come out swinging against. XXX and anyone who plans to registering or obtaining a .XXX domain name containing one of there trademarks.
In a statement sent to Xbiz.com and AVN.com, Hustler President Michael Klein said:
The ICM registry is “prohibited from registering or selling to a third party any .XXX domain names that contain the famous Hustler trademark or other Hustler-related trademarks.”
Click HERE to read more.
Tags: .xxx, Hustler, ICM Registry
Posted in domaining, Enforcement, gTLDS, trademark issues by Kelly Hardy
Posted July 11th, 2011
As reported by DomainNews.com: “The tightening of registration policies for .CN domain names by CNNIC has seen a rapid decline in the number of phishers using .CN domain names and an increase in the use of other top level domains and services, and in particular the CO.CC sub-domain and .TK country code TLD.
In a report from the Anti Phishing Working Group titled Global Phishing Survey 2H2010: Trends and Domain Name Use, the APWG found that millions of phishing URLs were reported in 2H2010, but the number of unique phishing attacks and domain names used to host them was much smaller.”
Click HERE to read the full story.
Tags: .CN, .co.cc, .TK, phishing
Posted in cybercrime, Enforcement by Kelly Hardy
