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Nokia wins first .me.uk domain name dispute

Nokia has won the first .me.uk domain name dispute after the registrant, who claimed that Nokia was his nickname... Read more

27 June, 2002 by Matt Loney

PricewaterhouseCoopers loses pwc.com domain fight

PricewaterhouseCoopers loses an attempt to win pwc.com from a Hong Kong company, after using a little-known subsidiary to bring its case Read more

27 May, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

FSA loses latest round in domain name dispute

An independent expert appointed by Nominet says the .uk registry should leave the fsa.co.uk domain name in the hands of a small seaside company Read more

15 October, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Trade agreement has domain name dispute language

Under the intellectual property section of the FTAA's trade agreement, proposed language requires ccTLD operators to abide by the UDRP developed by Icann Read more

9 July, 2001 by Juliana Gruenwald

Van Morrison wins domain name dispute

Van the Man gets by with a little help from his lawyers... Read more

5 July, 2002 by Sonya Rabbitte

Sex.com case turning dirty

An arcane domain name dispute also involves porn operators, a fugitive on the run in... Read more

14 August, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

Scotsman fights off multinational's domain name claim

Owner of chess site check-mates insurance giant in domain name dispute Read more

2 March, 2001 by Will Knight

ICANN wants independence from US govt

...services for gTLDS, including the implementation of new TLDs; • Implementing the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy for resolving cyber-squatting and other intellectual property... Read more

25 January, 2008

ICANN heads for 'substantive' meeting

The Internet administrator has set a controversial agenda for its meeting in Tunisia this week, covering VeriSign's redirection service, IPv6, and intellectual property rights Read more

28 October, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

DTI seeks views on the shape of ICANN

UK Government is asking Internet businesses and users to submit their views on the future of the Internet's co-ordinating body, ICANN, by 14th June Read more

6 June, 2002 by Olswang

Alcoholics Anonymous not awarded .org site

...AA. Furthermore, the board noted, AA encourages anonymity and a decentralised structure. Domain name dispute resolution boards side with trademark holders in a majority of... Read more

11 January, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

The low-down on domain name disputes

...in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains follow the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP). If you want to get a domain... Read more

28 December, 2001 by Matt Loney

Cybersquatting cases branded as 'biased'

...of cases respectively. All four bodies use a process called the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), which was drawn up by the body... Read more

21 August, 2001 by Matt Loney

'Three strikes and you're out' for domain name hijackers

New rules drawn up by .uk domain registry, Nominet, seek to speed cybersquatting cases, but put a stop to big companies abusing their powers Read more

8 March, 2001 by Matt Loney

Nominet defies WIPO over domain disputes

...it to be very successful," said Black Nominet dealt with its first domain name dispute in 1997 and has managed over 1,200 cases since... Read more

3 March, 2001 by Will Knight

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