Traverse Legal's Live Coverage from Domain Fest 2011

DOMAINfest 2011 officially kicks off tomorrow, February 1st, at 7am PST in Santa Monica, California.  Traverse Legal's founding partner, Enrico Schaefer and attorney John DiGiacomo are there to bring you live coverage of this exciting industry event including a presentation from Go Daddy's CEO, Bob Parsons, a live premium domain auction, a chat with Ben Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal (aka The Social Network on the big screen), the 3rd Annual Autism Fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion, and more.

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Traverse Legal to Live Blog DomainFest 2011

Traverse Legal is excited to announce that both founding partner Enrico Schaefer and attorney John Di Giacomo will be live blogging from DomainFest 2011, which will be held in Santa Monica, CA between February 1-3.  

DomainFest 2011 is the premere conference for the domain name industry and will include a keynote presentation from Bob Parsons, the CEO of GoDaddy.  To learn more about Traverse Legal's live blogging of this event and to schedule a reminder, visit http://traverselegal.com/traverse-legal-domainfest-2011/.

Domain Typosquatting Cases | Cybersquatting Twitter.com

Not surprisingly, the social networking sites are a favorite target for black hat cybersquatting.  Check out this domain typo generator report by Domaintools.com for twitter.com.  While some of the domains in the list are no doubt legitimate, the vast majority are clearly cybersquatting sites with parked pages showing advertisements for social networking ads.   One cybersquatting domainstand.com LLC holds the following domains:

Twitgter.com    Domainstand.com LLC    
Twkitter.com    Domainstand.com LLC    
Tw8itter.com    Domainstand.com LLC    
Twittefr.com    Domainstand.com LLC    
Tw3itter.com    Domainstand.com LLC    
Tw2itter.com    Domainstand.com LLC

UDRP search engine Domainfight.net shows domainstand.com to be a habitual cybersquatter of domain names, with transferred domains in each instance. 

For more information on domain typosquatting cases or tother UDRP respondents who engage in habitual cybersquatting, check these TraverseLegal.com search results for “habitual cybersquatting.”

Cybersquatting Cricket.com? Global Cricket Ventures Faces Domain Challenge

Global Cricket Ventures faces cybersquatting challenge with its acquired domain Cricket.com.  The domain name, cricket.com, was acquired as part of a settlement agreement with Live Current Media, who previously owned the domain and used it to feature ads for wireless phones.   Now, a domain dispute (case number 1364860) has commenced with the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) and some speculate that the complainant to be Cricket Wireless, a U.S. based company which owns the domain mycricket.com, and have been aggressively acquiring “Cricket” related domain names in recent years:

• cricketwireless.com;
• mycrickit.com and cricketcellular.com;
• cricketphonestore.com, et. al.;
• mycircket.com and wwmycricket.com;
• cricketcommunications.com, et. al.;
• jmycricket.com, et. al.;
• cricketcommunication.com.

Trademark Registration has become much more important with the advent of the Internet because virtually every company’s website is now global.  When trying to determine how to trademark a name, you should consult an attorney who specializes in trademark registration.  Trademarking your name correctly has become more important in order to avoid attack later. 

If you have a trademark or domain dispute issue, or wish to register a trademark, you may contact one of our trademark attorneys for a free evaluation or call one at 866-936-7447.