TechFlash: “Zillow.com vs iZillow.net”

Domain Name Wire: Hewlett-Packard Wants .HP Domain Name

UBid has an incontestable registration in uBid. It has sued domain name registrat GoDaddy for various activities monetizing domain names that include the strings UBID and YOUBID. The meat of the allegations are in paras 22-26.
Complaint Ubid v Godaddy

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Washington Post: Most Spam Sites Tied to Just 10 Registrars
1. XinNet Cyber Information Company Limited
2. eNom
3. Network Solutions
4. Register.com
5. Planet Online
6. Regtime Ltd.
7. OnlineNIC Inc.
8. Spot Domain LLC
9. Wild West Domains
10. Hichina Web Solutions
I suppose that one way to give these numbers meaning would…

YEAR NUMBER OF CASES
1999 1
2000 1857
2001 1557
2002 1207
2003 1100
2004 1176
2005 1456
2006 1824
2007 2156
2008 2329

CitiGroup brings in rem action in Virginia against various CITI-variant domain names.
Complaint Citigroup in Rem

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Something happened to the domain name owned by my hosting company. That’s why I haven’t been able to post for a week. The story is coming to be in bits and pieces. Stolen credit card number, expired domain name, etc. I hope my hosting company knows a good IP lawyer.

Via the Intellectual Property Constituency of ICANN, we learn that hte Board has unanimously adopted the following resolution regarding the protection of trademarks in the proposed new top level domains:
“Whereas, based on the public comment submissions received regarding new gTLD draft applicant guidebook, ICANN staff has determined that the implementation issues involving trademark protection…