2007 The Year of Domain Legal Battles
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With the good (see above) comes the bad. 2007 also marked a year of trouble for the domain PR machine. With tasting and cybersquatting articles and federal lawsuits naming major domain companies as defendants, 2007 was not a year without controversy. The federal cases brought to court this year marked a major shift in the way corporations handled domain disputes. These weren’t cases brought before an NAF or WIPO arbitration to retrieve a domain, but rather these cases sought out recompense and charged defendants with conspiracy and trademark violations in federal court. Microsoft started the ball rolling in the spring with a
suit against domain tasting operation Maltuzi which was followed by
Verizon bringing similar charges against iREIT to federal court.
Vulcan Golf then took a major swing at the industry by not just charging the “usual suspects,” but even adding Google as a defendant. Oversee, iREIT, Sedo, Dotster, BelgiumDomains.com and many individual domainers were named in US federal cases in 2007 battling against the likes of major corporations Verizon, Microsoft,
Dell and Yahoo. At the tail end of the year,
Verizon and iREIT settled their case, but other cases brought by Vulcan, Microsoft and Dell remain unresolved.
Source: www.domainnamenews.com
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