The House recently passed a bill (one that Clinton promised to veto if it reached his desk) to fine domain name cybersquatters up to $100,000. The bill is attached to a satellite television bill, in hopes that it would pass under the radar. The Clinton administration has said that it hoped the cybersquatting [...] Continue reading →

Microsoft had been considering the name “Windows 2000” for its upgrade from Windows NT for some time, but the trademark and domain name Windows2000.com was held by Bob Kerstein, who used the identity in his scripophily business. Windows paid Kerstein an undisclosed amount for the site and trademark, along with the domain name bob.com, [...] Continue reading →

This time, the US House of Representative is trying to pass their cybersquatting bill (which proposes a penalty for cybersquatting violators of up to $100,000) under the blanket of a budget bill. The bill is heavily backed by large corporations and the entertainment industry, who claim that people are holding their rightful domain names [...] Continue reading →

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will hold its first annual meeting today, hoping to deal with some of the issues that have been drawing fire from the various companies and organizations involved in the domain naming process. First and foremost on their agenda is a discussion on how to fund [...] Continue reading →

Today the House passed a bill that would protect trademark owners from cybersquatting. However, the bill undermines what the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) calls a freedom to criticize a company’s practices, dubbing it the “Business Criticism Prevention Act.” Criticism of the bill also comes from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers [...] Continue reading →

After battling with the Internet Registration Authority (IRA) for over two years, Palestine finally has its own top-level country domain, .ps. [...] Continue reading →

The intel-inside.com site, previously run by a cybersquatters as a pornography site which Intel thought would soil their reputation, suddenly had a for-sale sign hung on its front page after Intel threatened to take legal action. When sale efforts failed, the domain name went up for auction on eBay.com, with bids up to [...] Continue reading →