June 28th, 2009 by 
David Goldstein
Sarah Deutsche is on a crusade against cybersquatters. Deutsche has sued many businesses involved in the illicit activity, recovering thousands of domain names that play off of Verizon’s brands. But what really irritates her, the Computerworld article says, is who the perpetrators are. All of the companies Verizon has sued for cybersquatting are domain-name registrars that have been accredited by ICANN. … more
June 28th, 2009 by David Goldstein
With cybersquatters increasingly infringing on trademarks, business names and product names, as well as celebrity names, Computerworld has published their seven ways to avoid falling afoul of cybersquatters. … more
May 28th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Never letting a chance go by, cybersquatters have seized on the names of the semi-finalists of Britain’s Got Talent, registering the domain names and fake Twitter accounts of 33 of the 40 remaining contestants. … more
May 13th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Jonathan Ive, designer of the iMac, iPod and iPhone, has lost a claim for domain names carrying his name because his name is not a trade mark and because he shuns publicity, reports OUT-LAW News. His name is not used enough in commerce to be protected, an arbitrator has ruled, the report continues. … more
May 3rd, 2009 by David Goldstein
Following on from fellow American state Kentucky, Minnesota has served written notice to eleven national and regional telephone and internet service providers (ISPs) instructing them to prohibit access of all Minnesota-based computers to nearly 200 online gambling websites. … more
May 3rd, 2009 by David Goldstein
There are a growing number of reports of cybercriminals taking advantage of the global flu scare, including a number of dubious domain name registrations that make reference to the “swine flu”. … more
May 1st, 2009 by David Goldstein
According to a report in IT News, the Australian domain name regulator has refused to settle with Bottle Domains in their case where auDA initially terminated Bottle Domains’ accreditation.
auDA terminated Bottle Domains’ accreditation, and hence ability to act as a registrar for .au domain names, due to what auDA considers to be a serious breach by Bottle Domains of its Registrar Agreement. … more
April 21st, 2009 by David Goldstein
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky (ACLU of Kentucky) on Friday urged the Kentucky Supreme Court to uphold an appeals court ruling that blocked state officials from ordering out-of-state registrars to turn over control of over 100 overseas domain names accused of violating state gambling laws. … more
April 15th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Current Australian business bad boy Nicholas Bolton who has recently become a media star in all the wrong ways has landed himself in hot water over another of his business ventures. This time Australian Style which trades as Bottle Domains, a domain name registrar, has had its accreditation removed resulting in the virtual collapse of the business. … more
April 14th, 2009 by David Goldstein
After claiming the German registry DENIC had deleted the domain name wikileaks.de, it now turns out the problem lies with Wikileaks themselves. … more
April 13th, 2009 by David Goldstein
American singer and actress Jennifer Lopez won a cybersquatting case against a US-based website operator who registered two domain names that used her name for commercial profit, WIPO said on Thursday in a UDRP decision. … more
April 12th, 2009 by David Goldstein
According to the blog Gawker, Bill Clinton wants back a number of domain names such as presidentbillclinton.com, registered in the late ’90s as a joke by private investigator Joe Culligan. Now, according to Gawker, Bill Clinton’s lawyer is pursuing legal action to get the domain names back. … more
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The online poker website Bodog has won back control of the domain name bodog.com, assuming control of the domain name as a result of settling a longstanding dispute dating back to August 2007 with 1st Technology, LLC. 
Global brands are not always winning disputes over domain names including their brand names they felt were infringing their rights, sending lawyers dealing with these disputes into a tizz. 
According to a news release from the German Wikileaks and German media reports, DENIC, the registry for the .DE ccTLD, deleted the wikileaks.de domain name without warning on April 9. This follows the recent leaking of a list of domain names on the Wikileaks website of websites that were banned in Australia by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).