Cybersquatting & Domain Dispute Attorneys / Lawyers

One of the Rarely discussed Benefits of Domain and Website Development

There is a lot of talk on domainer blogs about developing domains.  With PPC revenue down and the tremendous amount of uncertainty surrounding parking pages, domainers are now developing their most valuable domains using a variety of techniques.  One tremendous benefit which development can provide is rarely discussed.  Most every one, two word and three word descriptive domain likely has trademark issues in one market or another.  Parking these pages can result in serving up ad links for competitors of trademark holders in what would otherwise be a descriptive domain.  For instance, the domain apple.com (which I am using only as an example) could serve up Google or Yahoo ads for a variety of different products and services including fruit, produce markets and related goods.  However, the domain apple.com, could not serve up ads for computers or other technology items consistent with Macintosh’s trademark registration for “apple.”  A failure to exclude technology products from the ads being served up on a parking page could result in a transfer of the domain to a trademark holder under the UDRP.

Of Domainers and Trademarks: Is it Time to Rethink the Bias Against Trademark Rights?

For years, domainers have been, from their perspective, abused and persecuted by trademark law and holders of trademark rights.  Even a one word descriptive domain such as “apple” can, as we all know, have trademark rights.

Live Auction Results From Traffic Disney - Good Numbers Being Generated

I am sitting at the live auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C East - Live Auction Results. I will be posting some of the interesting results and updating this post throughout the afternoon.  The prediction is that this will be a strong auction with the best portfolio of names ever offered before.    Official domain auction results from the low reserve auction here.

1. ow.com  - $ 120,000
2. closings.com  $25,000
3. maybe.com  $40,000
4. computerparts.com $80,000
5. blueray.com $30k
6. rainbow.com  $170,000
7. sexshows.com  $55k
8. filmmaking.com  $55k
9. anger.com  $49k
10. boxingnews.com $25k
11. labsupplies.com $18k
12. footballscores.com  $37.5k
13. floortiles.com $30k
14. typo.com  $25k
15. endorsement.com $16.5k
16. onlinecounseling.com $12.5k
17. conglomerate  $20k
18. civilclaims.com $8,500
19. engraved.com $19k
20. influential.com $12k
21. postalcodes.com  $42,500 (most activity award!).

T.R.A.F.F.I.C East - Live Auction Results From Disney

I am sitting at the live auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C East - Live Auction Results. I will be posting some of the interesting results and updating this post throughout the afternoon.  The prediction is that this will be a strong auction with the best portfolio of names ever offered before.    Official domain auction results from the low reserve auction here.

1. gasprices.com - $225,000
2. susan.com - $50,000

Valuable Three Letter Domain For Sale - gap.org

We represent Global Alliance of Performers in the sale of the domain name gap.org . Global Alliance of Performers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the State of Washington that has been increasing public awareness of important social and environmental concerns since inception. Gap.org has been able to achieve a Google Page Rank of 5 with approximately 2,500 visits per month and 8,500 hits per month. While there are some trademark restrictions surrounding the domain, there are also many non-infringing uses.

Global Alliance of Performers' goals and directions have changed, and our client is now accepting bids for the sale of the domain. There has been contact made by interested bidders for this domain, so it is our client's intent to sell the domain to the highest bidder. Comparable domains have sold for six figures, such as date.org for $150,349, loan.org $105,500, for army.org $99,000, and red.org for $50,000. Estibot has valued the domain at $17,000 while a prior GoDaddy certified appraisal was in excess of $20,000.
A public auction is being scheduled for the near future. If you would like to be notified of the time and place for this auction, or if you are interested in purchasing the domain, please contactus.

Should you have any questions, or should you be interested in submitting a bid, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Parked Domains Using "Walmart" Trademark Are Cybersquatting Says High Court

DomainPulse.com - Domain Name Industry News » Blog Archive » Cybersquatting Bharti

New Delhi: The Delhi high court has restrained a cybersquatter from using the domain names bhartiwalmart.in and bharti-wal-mart.com.

The court passed the interim order on a suit filed by Bharti Wal-Mart Pvt. Ltd, a Bharti and Wal-Mart joint-venture for wholesale cash-and-carry business, seeking an order restraining Bangalore resident Somesh Gupta, who has registered the domains in his name.

The infringement suit also sought a direction to Gupta to transfer the domains in the name of Bharti Wal-Mart. Via Cybersquatting Using bharti, Livemint.com

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CNET Purchased by CBS for $1.8 Billion

Thanks to the Conceptualist for pointing out this newscast found at Yahoo News about the purchase of CNET by CBS.  We have taken the liberty of transcribing the broadcast as well.

Domainers Can't Have It Both Ways: Until Blatant Cybersquatters Are Exterminated, All Domainers Will Suffer

It has always amazed me that domainers take such umbrage to the UDRP, ACPA and other cybersquatting provisions, while doing nothing to provide disincentives for these laws to exist.  I don’t know what the actual percentages are, but the number of domains registered which are clearly cybersquatting someone else’s famous trademark must be extremely high.  We have clients who have literally hundreds of blatant cybersquatters sitting on typos of their various domain names.  Virtually any company with significant traffic has typosquatters diverting traffic for their own PPC revenue.  The cybersquatting problem continues to grow while, at the same time, legitimate domainers work hard to legitimize domain monetization practices.