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When you own a domain such as Lild.com, better be careful what you do with it. Registered in 2002, the domain was monetized with a zero click lander, to take advantage of obvious typo-traffic. Where was the traffic coming from? German mega-store, Lidl,...
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April 26, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, lidl, lild.com, typo domains
AEX.com is a domain registered 20 years ago, and in 2017 it was acquired by a Chinese domain buyer. As it happened to many other valuable three letter .com domains, it was challenged via the UDRP process at the WIPO. The Complainant, Euronext N.V. of A...
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April 25, 2018 DomainGang
AEX, AEX.com, Domain Law
The Indonesian registrant of the domain NatixisCoin.com squatted on a famous bank’s name, then produced a fake identity card to validate his registration. Natixis is a French corporation that operates as an international corporate, investment ban...
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April 23, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, Edward Natixis Coinobin, Natixis, Natixis coin, NatixisCoin.com
The four letter domain Cagi.com was registered in 1995. Its registrant, Capitol Appraisal Group LLC, operates since 1982: “Capitol Appraisal Group, LLC provides appraisal and information services to governmental entities primarily for the purpose...
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April 23, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law
Sexpats.com, a domain that dropped and was caught twice by DropCatch, currently hosts content about the word’s definition: Sexpat (noun), an compound of sex and expat or expatriate. A sexpat is one who participates in tourism with the express int...
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April 21, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, generic domain, Sexpats, Sexpats.com
GDPR, a European data privacy law, takes effect on May 25th. Until then, little is known about how WHOIS, the core information of domain name ownership, will be affected. Domain registrars, such as GoDaddy, are beginning to provide a snippet of the WHO...
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April 21, 2018 DomainGang
David Weslow, Domain Law, gdpr, Wiley Rein
The proliferation of cryptocurrencies, ICO filings and blockchain technology has given a boost to domain squatting. Opportunists register domain names that consist of names of corporations in the financial field, plus a generic suffix such as “cr...
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April 20, 2018 DomainGang
crypto domains, Domain Law, Natixis, Natixis coins, Natixis crypto
Knowles Cazenovia, Inc., is a ceramic capacitor manufacturer of more than 30 years, under the Novacap brand. They registered a trademark for NOVACAP in 2008, and held the .com until late 2017, when they somehow forgot to renew it. Novacap.com was aucti...
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April 19, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, Novacap, Novacap.com
Booking.com B.V. of Amsterdam, Netherlands, is popular for its “Booking.Yeah” commercials. They also own DirectBooking.com, and a company from Morocco with a French trademark for DIRECT-BOOKING went after them. The Complainant owns the exac...
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April 17, 2018 DomainGang
booking.com, Direct Booking, directbooking.com, Domain Law, mark monitor
If you register the domain of a famous brand, such as Baidu, better check your bullshit factor at the door. The domain Baidu.bot, a direct reference to the Chinese search engine’s online “robot,” is being turned into some type of pseu...
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April 16, 2018 DomainGang
baidu, Baidu.bot, blockchain domains, Domain Law