Burberry awarded £63m in counterfeiting case
Retail Gazette
A federal court in the US found that the defendants are liable for federal trademark counterfeiting and infringement as they attempted to sell fake merchandise via numerous domain names using the Burberry trademark. In a similar lawsuit earlier this ...

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BitTorrent files its own intellectual property lawsuit
Domain Name Wire
The defendant went ahead and registered a lot of related domain names (including the .de domain) and managed to secure trademark registrations for the BitTorrent mark in Germany and Europe. When BitTorrent, Inc. tried to get its own trademarks in ...

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ICANN and the dot anything: do we care about domain names?
Pocket-lint.com
Do we still care about .com and .co.uk? Does anyone even bother with www.? Well thanks to ICANN, a body in charge of licensing out new top level domain names, the way we search for a website might be just about to change. Most people who type Google ...

Artificial scarcity of Spectrum
Economic Times (blog)
Yet, the recent recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on auction of spectrum seek essentially to jack up distortions in mobile telephony with a host of rigidities, hike upfront costs for service providers and, worse, ...

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Artificial scarcity of spectrum: Trai needs a roadmap for large-scale spectrum ...
Economic Times
Yet, the recent recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on auction of spectrum seek essentially to jack up distortions in mobile telephony with a host of rigidities, hike upfront costs for service providers and, worse, ...

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Congratulations, You've Just Recovered 763 Domains. Now What?
Business 2 Community
By Steve Levy, Published May 17, 2012 Google Inc. recently filed a UDRP Complaint with the National Arbitration Forum over 763 domain names that all contained its trademark, “Google” followed by another word or phrase, including generic terms, ...

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Apple wins iPhone5.com domain dispute, ordered to be transferred
9 to 5 Mac
Under the policy, most types of trademark-based domain-name disputes must be resolved by agreement, court action, or arbitration before a registrar will cancel, suspend, or transfer a domain name. Disputes alleged to arise from abusive registrations of ...

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ICANN domains still .MIA; OpenNIC lets you be a .pirate
ITworld.com
ICANN has been promising choose-your-own top-level domains for four years. Result so far: .NYET By Kevin Fogarty Add a new comment May 17, 2012, 10:45 AM — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the august body that keeps ...

Moniker Spring auction results
Domain Name Wire
Register your domain names with Searchen Networks Inc., Check domain name availability. Search for domain names. Domain Name Wire is the Domain Name Industry's News Source. The Moniker Premium Spring Auction at SnapNames just concluded.

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"My Savings Goals" From ING DIRECT USA Makes Saving Simpler and Controlling ...
Sacramento Bee
The trademarks ING, ING DIRECT, ING Lion, and the ING Lion logo, alone or as a part of any trademark, logo, work or domain name are trademarks of ING and are used by permission. Style note to Editors: ING DIRECT is always capitalized and never referred ...

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