A new company, Locu Marketing Solutions, is buying up generic domain names in an effort to lease them to bigger companies for a profit. [...] Continue reading →

An international committee today called for the creation of at least 7 new additional top-level domains in order to alleviate over-crowding of the popular .com domain extension. Additional committees appointed by IANA are also looking into the creation of new top-level domains. [...] Continue reading →

CMG Worldwide, the company that oversees Marilyn Monroe's estate, reports that it is close to a settlement with Marilyn Monroe Western Limited, the company currently utilizing the marilynmonroe.com domain name. CMG attorney, Ted Minch, mentioned that Western Limited would need to rename their website. [...] Continue reading →

InterNIC announced today that domain owner's can now pay their fees online in addition to the standard check and money order payments the company already accepts. In a partnership with First Virtual, users can setup a First Virtual account and receive a personal identification number that connects to a credit card, giving the user currency [...] Continue reading →

Disputes erupting over the creation of new top-level domains (TLDs) are turning the whole debate into a stalemate. In an effort to get the issue solved, the Internet Society has appointed 11 people to a new committee, the Internet International Ad Hoc Committee, whose sole mission is to resolve the dispute. [...] Continue reading →

Richard Schiff registered thenewyorker.com for his startup company, but soon received a cease and desist letter from The New Yorker Magazine. All across the Internet, big companies are bullying small businesses and individual registrants based on trademark infringement. According to an intellectual law professor, "people are rolling over left and right because the people with [...] Continue reading →

Digital Equipment (DEC) has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in Massachusetts against software company AltaVista Technology Incorporated (ATI) for using the name AltaVista, which is a trademark of Digital Equipment's popular search engine, AltaVista. [...] Continue reading →