Benjamin Edelman, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, has continued his quest against Google for profiting from “millions” of typo-squatting websites through Adsense advertisements. Edelman - who is serving as the co-counsel in the Vulcan Golf, et al., v. Google et al.; trademark-holder class-action litigation - has recently resurfaced in the news for an [...]

I was up late last night cruising through the 44 page docket from the case involving the 141 gambling domain names seized by the state of Kentucky.  This is a landmark case in my opinion and I wanted to read some of the fine print.  It’s pretty clear that this case will be setting some [...]

The Kentucky Circuit Court has dismissed all objections raised by the representatives of the 141 gambling domains that are subject to seizure by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Last month, the Commonwealth of Kentucky seized a number of gambling domain names because the “domains were being used in connection with illegal gambling activity.” The names included widely [...]

As reported earlier, Verizon sued Navigation Catalyst and the Basic Fusion registrar for cybersquatting. As part of this lawsuit, it has been reported elsewhere that the domain forum TMFor.com has been subpoenaed by Verizon’s lawyers. The items subpoenaed include identifying information for each and every user of the forum. According to DomainNews, the article goes on [...]

Cybersquatters are proving the old saying true: “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” With the recent troubles in the financial sector, domains related to the recent bank mergers are being purchased and placed for sale at record speeds. Domain names for the separate merges of Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and Lloyds TSB/HBOS were snapped up [...]

Marchex (MCHX) has sued two ex-employees for deceptively creating and running competing websites. The pair - Eric Thoreson and Casey Manion - have agreed to pay Marchex $100,000 in legal fees and deactivate their competing sites. The article by the Puget Sound Business Journal explained that the duo “had copied key Marchex computer code and were [...]

Carolyn Gudmundson, a former program manager at Microsoft’s MSN division, has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for defrauding the company out of nearly $1 Million in fake domain name registration fees. Between 2000 and 2004, Gudmundson submitted invoices with inflated charges for registration fees, billed the company for registrations that had already been paid, [...]

According to an article by Information Week, attorney Hal K. Levitte spent over $887.67 on his Google Adsense campaign to advertise his legal services and is now suing Google for placing $136.11 worth of those ads on parked domain pages. Out of the 202,528 impressions on parked domains, Levitte only received 668 clicks and zero [...]

A US District Court ordered an end to the illegal practices of Data Business Solutions, a Canadian company that was caught by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for deceptively posing as a domain name registrar and sending bills to thousands of US small businesses and nonprofit organizations. The scammers sent the notices claiming they were [...]

Domain Name News was forwarded a copy of a 2007 Federal Court decision that seems to be a wake up call to after-market domain name buyers to be wary of who they are buying domain names from. The California Federal Court decision should make it crystal clear to would-be domain name purchasers that true ownership [...]