Verisign’s Point-by-Point response to IAB’s critique of Verisign’s SiteFinder service and its use of DNS Wildcards.
Verisign’s response violate’s one of Dave Winer’s proposed Rules of Links by commenting directly on a document available on the Web without linking to it. Should this be a rule and what enforcement mechanisms should there be?
Via BANDT.COM, Cadbury Schweppes has sued Anchor Foods of Australia re Anchor’s use of KOOLA and design, which allegedly infringes’s Cadbury’s COOLA and design marks.
. . . is to imagine a team named the WHITESKINS whose mascot is a proud white warrior. But the team’s owners, players and fans would belong to another (majority) racial group.
The decision points out true laches issues, and the the evidentiary record isn’t stellar, but in the end the word REDSKINS defines a minority
Internetnews.com is reporting that Verisign will shut down its SiteFinder service in compliance with ICANN’s demand (See below).
First Circuit discussion of certification of a class of defendants under Rule 23(b)(1)(B) in a copyright case.
Interesting aside re the SiteFinder rhubarb via ICANNWatch: Apparently there is a National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, which prohibits the use of the NASA name in association with any business. ICANNWatch asks whether the fact that SiteFinder directs traffic resulting in typing in SHUTTLE-NASA.COM, for example, to a Versisign-controlled page, violates the Act.
ICANN has issued an “Advisory Concerning Demand to Remove Verisign’s Wildcard.”
In pertinent part:
“As set forth in today’s letter to VeriSign, ICANN’s preliminary conclusion is that the changes to .com and .net implemented by VeriSign on 15 September have had a substantial adverse effect on the core operation of the DNS, on the
IPKat on IP rights and the Third World.
Via news.com Verisign has been granted a contract to provide secure Internet voting services (not kidding). Ross Rader beat me to it:
“The great thing is that if voters type in the wrong vote, Verisign has the technology to point them in the right direction.”