I don’t know why lawsuits like this get filed.  Alanis Morrisette (who owns and uses alanis.com) sues Russ Smith over alanis.net  (which, he alleges, he has been warehousing).  More damages accruing to society because NSI turned the .net TLD into a sandtrap for silly litigation (but that’s a rant for another day).

Instead of making…

Craig Mende of Fross Zelnick, famous trademark litigator, writes in to report his latest victory before the Second Circuit.  Times Mirror published FIELD AND STREAM magazine for about 100 years and sold some items related to hunting and fishing.  Field and Stream Licenses Company had been selling all sorts of goods and services, including items related…

While I am proud of my Ping Whois (gives you full whois and whether websites and email are configured), I am always prepared to suggest other improved whois products, such as this multi-TLD wildcard search.  Thanks to Icann Blog for pointing this out.

Ernie the Atorney whose blog I heartily recommend, turned me on to this article debunking the claim, “Half the world has never made a phone call,” a factoid quoted by UN Secretary Generals, presidential candidates and other People Who Know The Facts.  Just remember what the Firesign Theatre said.

The Wall Street Journal ran a column yesterday (if it wasn’t subscription only, you would be able to read it in seconds by clicking here but it is so you can’t), supporting the view that there really isn’t a field of cyberlaw.  The column quotes from a law review article entitled Against Cyberlaw: “The steam…

The FTC has warned operators of various major search engines that they have to make it clearer that companies have paid to be included in web search results.

Ben Edelman of the Berkman Center at Harvard has compiled another study on domain names, this one entitled “DNS as a Search Engine: A Quantitative Evaluation.”  As a matter of disclosure, I admit that I suggested this project to Ben and helped in its methodology.

The study is a first step at proving…

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