Two news items on the same day with similar fact patterns. The NCAA sued Coors and the Redskins sued the Journal Newspapers, for giving away tickets in promotional sweepstakes, alleging trademark infringement and other causes.
August 2002
Urgent Assistance Requested
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I’m sorry there have been no blog items since Thursday but I was involved in something very important. Musa al-Mustapha of Nigeria emailed me. It’s really a sad story about how his father received $18 million from former dictator General Sani Abacha, but then the father died, and you know those court systems!! One thing…
The Obvious Choice, Therefore, Is To Give ICANN Cabinet-Level Status
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Here is a Washington Post article on a request by domain name registries Verisign, Nominet and DeNic, approaching DoC to reign in ICANN. One of the things that’s bugging Verisign these days is that ICANN is commenting on how much Verisign intends to charge for its Wait List Service (I’m now on the Transfer Task…
Maiden USDRP Decision
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What’s a TLD without a dispute resolution procedure. The first USDRP decision (right, the dispute resolution procedure for the .US TLD) has been handed down. CDW prevailed over the registrant of cdw.us, who didn’t show up. The first 8 filed USDRPs are listed here.
I happen to know that a big-wig at Neustar…