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Trade agreement has domain name dispute language
News Icann's dispute resolution process was developed to help settle disputes brought by trademark owners against those accused of "cybersquatting", the practice of registering domain names in hopes of selling it back to a trademark owner for a profit.
[July 9, 2001, 12:15]
FSA loses latest round in domain name dispute
News A small Bournemouth IT company has emerged victorious in the latest round of an ongoing dispute with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for control of the www.fsa.co.uk domain name. But the fsa.co.uk dispute is being conducted according to the...
[October 15, 2001, 17:44]
Nokia wins first .me.uk domain name dispute
News Nokia has won the first .me.uk domain name dispute after the registrant, who claimed that Nokia was his nickname, was found to have registered a raft of other well-known brands. In its complaint to Nominet, which runs the dispute resolution...
[June 27, 2002, 15:40]
Domain name price hikes attacked
News A dispute over the cost of Internet domain names has spilled over onto America's Capitol Hill, where allegations of monopolization and unreasonable price hikes surfaced in a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
[June 8, 2006, 8:40]
ICANN announces domain name changes
Talkback Most companies however conduct business without the benefit of any trademark protection, and are left unprotected in any domain name dispute. I know of at least one pending patent that would allow a virtually unlimited number of domain names under...
[November 7, 2003, 20:26]
NTT DoCoMo accused of reverse domain name hijacking
News Under the .biz dispute procedures, NTT DoCoMo would have had to demonstrate bad faith on AT&T's part, but in the opinion of the panel it failed to do so. Japan's NTT DoCoMo was accused by a panel convened by the World Intellectual Property...
[July 9, 2002, 15:50]
US Report: Domain-name plans pass to industry
News Those familiar with the Clinton administration's Web domain privatisation plan, to be announced today, say many crucial details - such as who will be in charge of the Net administration body, and provisions for dispute resolution and distribution...
[June 5, 1998, 12:17]
FSA loses domain name battle
News We have now been dragged through Nominet's dispute resolution service by a quango. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has lost its battle to gain control of the fsa.co.uk domain name. The .uk domain name administrator Nominet has ruled that the...
[October 19, 2001, 12:45]
Nominet calls in experts to resolve disputes
News The UK national domain name registry Nominet has announced plans to recruit up to 30 dispute resolution experts, to settle cases where mediation has failed to bring about a resolution. Nominet estimates that one in every 2000 UK domain name cases...
[July 17, 2001, 15:07]
Political cybersquatting scores a win
News In a victory for cybersquatters and others who snatch up domain names containing personal monikers, a dispute-resolution board has refused to turn over Web addresses containing the words "Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
[April 30, 2002, 10:11]
Sucks.com owner wins domain-name case
News A dispute resolution panel has refused to turn the domain name over to financial news service Bloomberg, which means that Dan Parisi, who also runs the porn site Whitehouse.com, will continue as owner.
[June 20, 2001, 9:20]
The low-down on domain name disputes
News Dispute resolution procedures were designed to institute a level of fairness into the system, and domain name registrars will abide by the findings of dispute tribunals. All registrars in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains follow the...
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
Cybersquatting cases branded as 'biased'
News All four bodies use a process called the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), which was drawn up by the body that oversees the Internet, ICANN. Raising a dispute resolution action for one domain name with a single WIPO panellist...
[August 21, 2001, 17:15]
VeriSign sues to reinstate redirection
News A long-simmering dispute between the two organisations that control the way Internet domain names and addresses are run became public on Thursday, after VeriSign filed a lawsuit claiming it had unlawfully been prevented from adding new features to...
[February 27, 2004, 7:35]
'Three strikes and you're out' for domain name hijackers
News The measures are part of an overhaul of the dispute resolution system for the .uk domain names designed to give Nominet new powers over name disputes, including the power to transfer a domain name in the event of a successful claim against a...
[March 8, 2001, 11:47]
DTI seeks views on the shape of ICANN
News However, some of these issues do have a more direct impact on ordinary businesses -- like domain name dispute resolution policies -- and the UK Government has therefore thrown the consultation open to the entire UK Internet community.
[June 6, 2002, 11:52]
Dyson: Open ICANN meeting worked
News ICANN on Thursday approved a measure to finalise a dispute resolution policy within 45 days on issues such as cybersquatting -- when one company buys a Web address containing a name or trademark of another company and offers to sell it back at a...
[August 27, 1999, 8:56]
Cybersquatting OK for 'freedom of speech' sites
News The dispute was over a website, chelwest.com, operated by Frank Redmond, which expresses inflammatory opinions about a public hospital — Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. A similar dispute was held in 2003 over an Australian website.
[December 6, 2007, 9:46]
No room for cybersquatters - Part II
News Namely, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved its Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy on Oct.calling for arbitration when a domain-name dispute arises. The fees that the complaining party would pay are...
[March 27, 2000, 12:23]
Battle for iTunes.co.uk is over
News But the adjudicator presiding over the Nominet dispute resolution procedure, telecoms policy consultant Claire Milne, awarded the domain name to Apple because, she said, it was an "abusive registration".
[November 23, 2005, 11:30]
