Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) filed two “ISS” trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on June 4 and 5, 2020 (nos. 88950188 and… Read More »UDRP on iss.mobi: a debatable transfer
The schedule for the opening of .TH is as follows: from February 1, 2021 to March 30, 2021: applications; April 1, 2021: announcement of the… Read More ».TH domains available from 1st February 2021
The Alberto Giacometti Foundation has initiated a chDRP procedure in order to obtain the transfer of the domain names archivioalbertogiacometti.ch, fondazionealbertogiacometti.ch, and fondazionegiacometti.ch based on… Read More »chDRP on archivioalbertogiacometti.ch, fondazionealbertogiacometti.ch and fondazionegiacometti.ch
Currently, a company established oustide of Australia can register a .com.au or .net.au domain based on an australian trademark, provided the domain is identical or very… Read More ».com.au and .net.au domains : tightening of the rules governing trademark-based eligibility
My Gameroom LLC initiated a UDRP procedure against Facebook for gameroom.com, registered in 2016, based on the rights it holds on “MY GAMEROOM” U.S. trademarks,… Read More »UDRP on Gameroom.com: Facebook keeps its domain name
On July 3, 2020, Mr. G., claiming to be the owner of an unregistered trademark called “SPASE” since 2019, initiated a UDRP procedure before the… Read More »UDRP on spase.com: act II (two decisions in three months)
On December 23, 2020, ICANN announced that the DNSSEC protocol was now deployed and operational in all generic top-level domains (i.e. 1,195 gTLDs). ICANN may,… Read More »DNSSEC: all gTLDs are secure
It is rare for a UDRP complaint about a domain name identical to an acronym trademark to be successful (see, eg: “Trademarks and domain names:… Read More »UDRP on mym.fan : a rare example of transfer concerning an acronym
Initially, it was Changyou, a Chinese online games company, which had requested and obtained the new gTLD .CYOU (its NASDAQ ticker symbol). But in the… Read More ».CYOU: sunrise period from May 14, 2020 to June 15, 2020
“Refresh Yourself.” Who said that UDRP decisions were all the same and that they were dull? D2020-0054 offers the opportunity to prove the contrary and,… Read More »Coke.energy, Coca-cola.energy and Cocacola.energy: exhausted during the sunrise period?
