The High Court Of Delhi At New Delhi has just upheld an arbitrators determination that the domain name Internet.in should be taken away from the domain holder, its registration cancelled and ordered the domain to be held at the registry level, based on an Indian trademark for the term "Internet". It's a complicated case but to the extent any of you have any .in domain names you should really … [Read more...]
Head Of House Committee Proposes To Change SOPA To Only Apply To Sites Operating Outside Of The US
According to Variety.com, (I do think its the 1st time we cited this source) the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is going to propose changes to the Stop Online Piracy Act, (SOPA) to make it applicable to only to sites located outside of the US Under the change it would require that foreign sites be blocked by preventing them from resolving to that Web … [Read more...]
ICA Letter To The House Against SOPA: “”Potentially Devastating For ICANN Registrars & Others in Domain Name Industry
Phil Corwin on behalf of The Internet Commerce Association sent a letter to today to the senior members of the House Judiciary Committee "regarding the likely unintended but potentially devastating impact of H.R. 3261 (”SOPA”) as introduced upon ICANN-accredited registrars and other participants in the broad domain name industry", as well as upon the domain registrants who use those … [Read more...]
Homeland Security Seizes 11 More Domain Names
Homeland Security/ICE has seized 11 more domain names. Domains seized yesterday were: 007disk.com 007disk.net 82movie.com 82movie.net 82us.com bzserv.info itvwmg.com ktvwmg.com wmgitv.com wmgus.com wmgus.net Of these domain names, 007disk.com, has a PR of 2 and had as many as 4K visitors a month a and 82movie.com got as many as 9,000 visitors a month, according to … [Read more...]
MGM Files Federal Trademark Lawsuit Over Poker Domains
According to Vegasinc.com, MGM Resorts International filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Thursday against four individuals and two companies it claims have been infringing on its trademarks by registering poker website names that include the names of MGM casinos in Las Vegas. The lawsuit alleging trademark infringement was against the owners … [Read more...]
Another Thanksgiving & Another 131 Domain Names Seized By Homeland Security
Last year we wrote a post right after Thanksgiving entitled: "While You Were Eating You're Turkey Homeland Security Was Seizing 9 Domains". Well I could have repeated the headline today except the number would be 131 domains rather than just 9. Looks like Homeland Security is going to make domain seizures on Thanksgiving as common in the US as Turkey and Stuffing. Here are the domain … [Read more...]
Court of Justice of the European Union: “EU Cannot Order ISP’s To Prevent illegal Dowloading Of Files”
While The US is proposing laws to make all sorts of Internet providers and companies to filter and block certain content in a ruling issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union today, the court ruled that "EU law precludes the imposition of an injunction by a national court which requires an internet service provider to install a filtering system with a view to preventing the illegal … [Read more...]