Category: Disputes
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Debevoise & Plimpton secures cybersquatting domain name
Debevoise & Plimpton, a prominent New YorK City based law firm, was at odds with a domain name that was trying to cybersquat its name. The firm then went on to Namecheap for the resolution of the issue, but after its unsupportiveness Debevoise had to approach the court. The infringing domain names here were Debevoise-law.com…
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What would Domino’s do against DominickPizzas.com?
Domino’s Pizza was established in 1960. Interestingly the Pizza giant started with the name DomiNick’s, a name borrowed from the place where the owners of Domino’s earlier worked. However, upon expansion they had to drop the name, and hence the name Domino’s was chosen. However, it looks like someone is trying to repeat history. A…
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NameBlock @ NamesCon Global 2022
NameBlock AS was launched at the NamesCon Global 2022. The Gold partner of NamesCon might have the solution that the industry is in dire need of. NameBlock is a unique one place destination to protect your brand name against domain name impersonation. We all understand the importance a right domain name can have in the…
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What is halting Wildberries’ transition to Berries?
Wildberries is a well known name in Russia. It is the largest Russian online retailing platform. The company functions even outside Russia with presence in more than 15 countries. The Company recently decided to change its name. The Company decided to drop the ‘Wild’ from its name, and just keep the Russian translation of the…
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Does registering Adventist.com give trademark rights over Adventist?
Does registering a domain name give Trademark Rights over the terms involved in the domain name. UDRP is clear about the ownership of the domain name in such cases. The domain name belongs to the preceding party, i.e., whichever is registered first the Trademark or the domain name, the said name belongs to them. However,…
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Delhi High Court’s important direction to Domain Name Registries
Earlier, we had informed about how the Delhi High Court had instructed Domain Name Registries (DNR) to cancel any domain name related to the trademark Meesho. The Court has presented a similar stance against another brand infringement via the deployment of domain names in cases related to the brand Snapdeal. The Delhi High Court was…
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Ahead of general allocation of .au, accountants warn users
The Australian domain space for .au is going to open for the general public on 20th September. This means that anyone wishing to register a .au domain name can do so, on a First Come First Serve basis. Ahead of the general allocation of names, the accountants association of Australia has warned users of the…
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Domain name of one of the Oldest LINUX OS impersonated
Debian is a free open-source LINUX based Operating System. It is the oldest OS that is based on the monolithic LINUX kernel and has been in operation since 1993. There is a huge number of open source applications that can be run on this OS with varying operations that include domestic, business, manufacturing, etc. The…
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Domain Names spoofing Meesho gains High Court’s attention
Domain name spoofing is not something new. It’s something that is pretty common, however most of the time the scope of the case remains contracted to the case itself. But this time the High Court has looked into the issue through a wider lens. Meesho is an online shopping platform that has shown remarkable growth…
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A boxing match for BoxesMaker.com
From my experience, the presence of bad faith is the single most important factor dictating the future of a domain name dispute. Even trademarks fail if bad faith couldn’t be established. But when they do, chances of success increase. Forum received an interesting dispute regarding the domain name BoxesMaker.com. The Complainant here was The BoxMaker,…
