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Betting.com registrant’s trademark application was abandoned in 2000

Game Lounge acquired Betting.com in a domain rebranding deal worth seven figures, or more. The acquisition of Betting.com is interesting as it coincides with the decision about Booking.com and its matching trademark BOOKING.COM. In 2000, Christopher La...

July 2, 2020 DomainGang Betting.com, booking.com, Christopher Latter

#Booking yeah! But don’t rush registering your generic #domains as trademarks

The US Supreme Court today affirmed that the domain name “booking.com” can be registered as a trademark (BOOKING.COM) instead of seen as merely a generic domain name. The decision should be well-perceived by many domain name investors that ...

June 30, 2020 DomainGang booking, booking.com, Domain Law, generic domains, US Supreme Court

Donuts rolls out free phishing attack protection for all registrants

Donuts is offering registrants of domains in its suite of new gTLDs free protection from homograph-based phishing attacks. These are the attacks where a a bad guy registers a domain name visually similar or identical to an existing domain, with one or ...

June 16, 2020 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries, dpml, homographs, phishing, truenames

World’s youngest country launches its Nazi-risk TLD next week

South Sudan is gearing up to launch its controversial top-level domain, .ss, on Monday. It’s being run by the National Communication Authority for the country, which was founded in 2011 after its split from Sudan and is the world’s youngest...

May 27, 2020 Kevin Murphy .ss, Domain Registries, eap, nazis, south sudan

Irony alert! Data protection agency complains it can’t get access to private Whois data

A European data protection authority has complained to ICANN after a registrar refused to hand over one of its customers’ private Whois records, citing the GDPR data protection regulation, according to ICANN. Compounding the irony, the DPA wanted...

May 26, 2020 Kevin Murphy Domain Policy, dpas, edpb, epdp, gdpr, ssad

This domain dispute might be better in the courts

The Complainant has a right to be upset but will have difficulty showing trademark rights. UMass Memorial HealthAlliance has lost a UDRP for UrgentCareLeominster .com at World Intellectual Property Organization. The hospital chain has a right to be upset about how the current owner of the domain is using it. The domain owner has created […]

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May 19, 2020 Andrew Allemann Policy & Law

Want to Google #China? Cool, but can’t use the #domain name GoogleChina.com

Google is a famous trademark, despite the mark’s (ab)use as a verb – to “Google” something. More important, you can’t incorporate the Google mark into domain names, if you are not Google. The registrant of GoogleChina.com ...

May 9, 2020 DomainGang Domain Law, Google China, GoogleChina.com, transfer domain

Four more dot-brands join the gTLD deadpool

Four big-brand gTLDs have asked ICANN to terminate their contracts so far this year, bringing the total number of voluntarily discontinued strings to 73. Notable among the terminations are two of the three remaining gTLDs being held by luxury goods mak...

April 21, 2020 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries, dot-brands April 15, 2020 Kevin Murphy Domain Policy, epdp, gac, gdpr

Cool #JUUL : Don’t ride on a famous #trademark with your #domain registrations

Registering “cool” variants of existing trademarks is pretty much cybersquatting. Tagging a word on a popular brand such as JUUL is not exactly “fair use” of their mark. In the case of the domain name CoolJuul.com the intent is ...

April 11, 2020 DomainGang Cooljuul.com, Domain Law

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