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The compassion.com website owner is being sued by another charity organization, Compassion International, in an ironic trademark infringement battle. Compassion.com matches charities with potential donors, while Compassion International is a Christian missionary charity that claims a trademark on the word ‘compassion’.…
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Sprint has decided to fight for the domain name Spree.com, asking its current owners to turn it over after infringing on their trademark. Sprint was granted the trademark Spree for its prepaid phone card service. The Spree.com website is currently a non-competitive shopping site and owners claim that Sprint acquiring …
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When PGMedia requested that their name servers be added to Network Solution’s root-server, they had no idea it would lead to battling the National Science Foundation. After filing an anti-trust suit against Network Solutions (who now claims to have full ownership of a database that most say is public domain …
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Kashpureff, the founder of AlterNIC and the one who launched a hack attack on Network Solutions InterNIC name server system, publicly apologized for his action and vowed he’d ‘never do it again.‘ Kashpureff also claims he will not give up the fight to keep companies like Network Solutions from owning …
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The battle between Network Solutions and AlterNIC took a step outside the courts today as Network Solutions canceled a court hearing for a restraining order against AlterNIC founder, Eugene Kashpureff.…
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In the alternative-domain-name-battle, Network Solutions tried to convince a Federal Judge to grant a restraining order against Eugene Kashpureff, founder of the radical AlterNIC service, who had recently launched hack attacks against InterNIC’s name server system. The Judge told Network Solutions that it was clear that damage had been done, …
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After ‘hijacking’ the InterNIC database for two weeks, Eugene Kaspureff, founder of the radical AlterNIC service, finally shut down his DNS hack when he was named in a civil lawsuit from Network Solutions.…
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Cyber Promotions, Inc., an email marketing company most known for spamming, is currently in the middle of a trademark dispute with Hormel over the use of the world “spam”. Hormel demanded that Cyber Promotions stop using the word ‘spam’ in their domain spamford.com, but the company rejected this request.…
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Web Systems, an internet development company, filed for a restraining order against Cyber Promotions, a notorious web spammer. The suit claims that Cyber Promotions used Gavin Clarkson’s, Chairman of Web Systems, email address in spamming, which in turn flooded the web development company’s servers.…
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First year law student, Barry Edwards, is learning more about his future career than he planned. Edwards registered the domain nyu-law.com and is currently entangled in a trademark infringement case with his law school. Upon seeing the registered name, the university asked Edwards to cease and desist.…
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PGPMedia has filed a suit against Network Solutions, demanding access to the company’s domain databases. PGPMedia wants to assign and sell domain names in competition with Network Solutions, who holds a monopoly in the domain registration business.…
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Image Online Design, an upstart domain registry, filed a lawsuit to stop the Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) from creating seven new top-level domains. Image Online Design states that IANA originally agreed to award the .web registry to their company, but later rescinded. The suit asks the court to award …
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Planned Parenthood, a non-profit organization for reproductive health, won a domain trademark dispute against Richard Bucci, the plannedparenthood.com registrant who falsely claimed that his website was the official planned parenthood website.…
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In a suit that both sides are calling victory, AOL members can now block spam messages from Cyber Promotions; however Cyber Promotions can continue sending junk email to those AOL members that have not blocked them.…
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The line between domain names and trademark infringement has blurred as the Internet grows. In a recent case, Toys ‘R’ Us filed a suit against an adult website, Adults ‘R’ Us, claiming that it tarnished their wholesome image. The site was ordered to shut down by a judge. With the …
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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.…
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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 …
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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.…
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CMG Worldwide sued Marilyn Monroe Western Limited for trademark infringement using the domain marilynmonroe.com, which Western Limited uses to sell photos of the late Monroe.…
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In a recent court battle, the judge sided with American Standard and ruled that the company take the domain americanstandard.com. The name had been registered by Dennis Toppen for $100, but the company saw the move as trademark infringement. In addition to americanstandard.com, Toppen also registered aircanada.com, allsteel.com, deltaairlines.com, eddiebauer.com, …
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Hasbro, maker of Milton Bradley board games, including the popular Candy Land has filed a suit against a company using the domain CandyLand.com to display offensive adult material. The company claims that the site is damaging to their trademark and a temporary restraining order is in place.…
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