Respondent in UDRP alleges that it is a cat, which is not an affirmative defense, and possibly casts doubt on the rest of the allegations.
Must read opinion for that dry British wit:
Morgan Stanley v. Meow, NAF 671304 (May 22, 2006).
Practice pointer: If you are cat, use one of those domain name
First .MOBI Deadline May 29
The new .MOBI top level domain name is going live. There is a sunrise period this week until the 29th for entities that can establish that they are part of the ‘mobile industry’ (established by membership in one of several mobile industry organizations).
A second sunrise begins June 12 for holders of trademark registrations (any
Proposed New York State Anti-Cybersquatting Law
Discussion here.
Text:
The language of S2306 follows:
Introduced by Sens. LITTLE, ALESI, BRUNO, DeFRANCISCO, FARLEY, FUSCHIL-LO, HANNON, LARKIN, LEIBELL, LIBOUS, MALTESE, MARCELLINO, MARCHI, MAZIARZ, MEIER, MORAHAN, PADAVAN, RATH, SALAND, SKELOS, VOLKER, WINNER – read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to
“The U.S. Versus .xxx”
eWeek: Freedom of Information Act requests reveal emails suggesting that U.S. Government Officials such as Rove and religious conservative lobbyisys were active in the defeat of the .XXX top level domain name. The article suggests that such activities may have violated the USG’s Memorandum of Understanding with ICANN.
ICANN WATCH and (ICANN board member) Susan
Observations re Politics of ICANN Rejecting .XXX
Gowlings Portal On Domain Names
The Gowlings firm has created a portal for various domain name news and tools, including a summary of all dot-ca arbitrations.
Fill In Your Funny Title Here About The End Of .XXX
Icann has rejected .XXX as a new top level domain. Possible titles for this post include:
.XXX Gets X’ed Out
No Sex Please, We’re ICANN
.XXX To Be Ex-TLD
No Happy Ending For .XXX
As I have mentioned previously, I think that .XXX was plausible as a harm-reduction approach It was misunderstood as
Trying Out Domain Names For 5 Days
CircleID discussion of the practice of domain name speculators taking advantage of the 5 day trial period to test out domain names, to determine whether they have sufficient ‘type-in’ traffic to make them worthy of being yet another parked-domain displaying keyword ads.
WaPo Article on Google and Parked Domains
Washington Post: The Web’s Million-Dollar Typos
First .EU Dispute Decision
That was fast. As far as I can tell, an entity received a quick registration for PST in the Benelux. While another entity with an older PST registration is moving to cancel this Benelux registration, as far as this .EU dispute goes, a valid registration is a valid registration. I encourage EU practitioners to