A consortium of communications companies including Nokia, Vodafone, Microsoft and Orange, are asking that ICANN approve its application for a mobile-phone oriented top level domain.
News report here. Slashdot rumination here.
Calder.mobile from the Guggenheim depicted above.
All nine counts of MasterCard’s suit against Ralph Nader for his ‘priceless’ parody ad gets dismissed on summary judgment.
Here, Instapundit reports on a protest by the NY Times against a Times parody.
Try mooter.com, now in beta.
A recent article from the Times has been making the rounds reporting that several domain names, such as TRUCK.COM and BEEF.COM have sold for high amounts.
Coincidentally, I recently discovered that LookSmart has posted online an article I wrote for Brandweek in February 2000 entitled “Why The Splurge On Generic Domain Names.” Re-reading
Interesting article on the history of shopping malls in America, via The New Yorker. Blog readers following the development of the law of ‘brand as navigator’ (the catchphrase I apply to domain name, meta-tag and keyword cases), know that an implicit question in these cases is: who owns the traffic? Two bits in the
Article via Interfax that annual .CN domain name registrations now outnumber .COM registrations in China.
Second Appellate District of the Court of Appeal in California denies Sony’s motion to strike an action brought against it for fabricating quotes by fictitious reviewers in its movie ads. Sony argued that because its movies receive First Amendment protection, that the ads for the movies do as well. The Court held that while movies
Lucas Nursery didn’t do a good good on a customer’s swale. Customer registered lucasnursery.com and posted information criticizing them. Lucas brought an ACPA count. Sixth Circuit held that this was a non-commercial criticism site and registration of the domain name was not cyber-squatting. This case is interesting as it represents the domain name registrant
About.com introductory article bearing the title above, in which I am quoted as viewing trademark protection as a good thing. Not given to absolutes, I would never personally use an expression such as ‘infringement proof.’
IPKat reports on UK Trademark Registry decison finding BI-AGRA for fertilizer confusingly similar to VIAGRA (for virilizer), on grounds of aural similarity.