Posts Tagged ‘Cybersquatters’
Posted December 14th, 2009
From The Economic Times
It’s a business worth millions of dollars that some Internet entrepreneurs are eyeing by sale of websites dedicated to the Tiger Woods scandal, even as the disgraced golfer himself has lost millions in earnings to his ‘infidelity’.
Dozens of websites have been registered in the past few days and put on sale for prices as high as 21 million dollars to cash in on the scandal involving the former ‘God of Golf’ and his mistresses.
These include TigersHarem.com, one of the most expensive so far, TigerGotWood.com, TigersLitter.com, TigerTexts.com, TigerLies.com, TigerWoodsLies.com and 2TimingTiger.com, which are currently on sale at leading online marketplace eBay.
Around 20 such website addresses are currently on sale for a price totaling to over 100 million dollars — an amount nearing the golfer’s annual income from his endorsements and tournaments.
See the full skinny HERE.
Tags: Cybersquatters, Scandal, Tiger Woods
Posted in Cybersquatting by Ken Taylor
Posted April 21st, 2009
A domain name registrar in India is exploiting the rules governing proceedings under ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to frustrate trademark owners’ efforts to retrieve domain names from cybersquatters.
The UDRP rules require trademark owners who wish to file a complaint under the policy to state that they “will submit, with respect to any challenges to a decision in the administrative proceeding canceling or transferring the domain name, to the jurisdiction of the courts in at least one specified Mutual Jurisdiction.” The defined term Mutual Jurisdiction means a court jurisdiction that covers either the relevant domain name registrar’s principal office or the domain name registrant’s address as listed in the Whois record at the time the complaint is filed. Essentially, the UDRP complainant must elect whether it will litigate a judicial challenge to the outcome of the administrative proceeding in its opponent’s home jurisdiction or in the jurisdiction of the registrar, which is usually viewed as “neutral.”
The Mutual Jurisdiction requirement enables cybersquatters to make it harder on trademark owners by selecting a registrar strategically based on location. Imagine that a cybersquatter outside the U.S. wishes to extort money from a U.S. trademark owner. If he registers an infringing domain name with a registrar in his own country, it forces the trademark owner to consent in a UDRP complaint to litigate on the cybersquatter’s home field if the cybersquatter challenges the UDRP result.
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Tags: APCA, Cybersquatters, India, Mumbai, Mutual Jurisdiciton UDRP
Posted in Cybersquatting, Enforcement, ICANN, UDRP by Deborah Wilcox
