Alleging that working the ICANN process is like being nibbled to death by ducks, Verisign has sued ICANN for screwing with it once too often. Story here, links to complaint part 1 and part 2.
Duck quote in this article.
Zuccarini To Receive 30 Months in Prison
Press Release announcing that Zuccarini (background here) will receive 30 months in prison for violating the Truth in Domain Names Act.
At least two of the domain names mentioned in the press release, DINSEYLAND.COM and BOBTHEBIULDER.COM appear to have been registered by third parties and are pointing to pages of links.
More on Google v. Yahoo
How Google’s results compare to those of Yahoo’s when the search term is NIKE, via Langreiter.com. Thanks to Greg for this.
Making the Case For Spell Check
A judge has ruled that a lawyer should be awarded $300/hour for his courtroom work, but only $150/hour for his written work, which was “‘careless’ and ‘laden with typographical errors.'” Via NYLawyer.
Waiting For Wait List
$132 Million Law Suit Is Not Chicken Feed
Cache La Pourde has a federal trademark registration for PROFILE for animal feeds. Land O’Lakes has an application for LAND O’LAKES PROFILE for feed and is selling the feed depicted. Cache La Pourde has filed a $132 million trademark suit against Land O’Lakes.
Microsoft Office for the Rest of Your Life?
Apple is promoting its iLife ’04 product with the slogan “It’s like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life.”
Interesting.
The True Owner of a Domain Name
Inman Real Estate News reports on a web site hosting company specializing in create websties for real estate agents, that is allegedly holding customers’ domain names ‘hostage.’ The article states that some agents ‘suspected’ that the hosting company had registered the domain names in the company’s name rather than in the agents’ names.
A domain
CIA v. ACI
The Political Cybersquatting Season Opens
More domain name disputes between politicians, via Washingtonpost.com.