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Tag: Domain Name

4th Circuit Agrees That Domain Re-Registration Is Subject to ACPA

March 2, 2023   |   By: David Ludwig   Last month, the Fourth Circuit issued a landmark intellectual property ruling in The Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Shenzhen Stone Network Information Ltd., No. 21-1823 (4th Cir. Jan. 24, 2023). The court decided that re-registrations of domain names are subject to the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA)… Continue reading 4th Circuit Agrees That Domain Re-Registration Is Subject to ACPA

Domain Name Disputes: How to Protect Your Domain Name

January 24, 2023   |   By: David Ludwig Disputes regarding domain names can emerge from legitimate commercial competition as well as from misunderstandings, business opportunism, and domain brokers. Cybersquatters may try to put your domain name up for sale or auction. Or they may attract internet visitors to their own site and away from yours. In… Continue reading Domain Name Disputes: How to Protect Your Domain Name

Welcome to the Internet: Bad Faith Domain Name Registration and Cybersquatting

By: Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig  [6/1/22] Part 2 Welcome back to Part 2 of “Welcome to the Internet,” where we review some of the broad legal topics concerning domain names. Please recall that domain names are user-friendly names given to websites to reflect their unique IP address, a complex string of numbers. For example, ‘www.google.com’… Continue reading Welcome to the Internet: Bad Faith Domain Name Registration and Cybersquatting

Welcome to the Internet: What is a Domain Name and how does it work?

By: Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig  [5/27/22] Part 1 As of January 2021, nearly 40 years since the first iteration of a communications protocol capable of transferring and linking various computer networks to one another, there are over 4.5 active internet users. [1] However, despite sixty percent of the global population utilizing the internet for anything from sharing… Continue reading Welcome to the Internet: What is a Domain Name and how does it work?

Trademark Use and Trademark Infringement in Domain Names

By: David Ludwig [2/4/22] Trademark rights and domain name ownership overlap in many ways, but they are not the same. Domain name ownership does not necessarily establish trademark rights, and trademark ownership does not necessarily give you the right to own the corresponding domain name.  I am often approached by clients who have received a… Continue reading Trademark Use and Trademark Infringement in Domain Names

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