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The Battle For Gmail.de
Gmail.de is not owned by Google, but by a German venture capitalist who runs a physical and electronic postal service called G-Mail.
Daniel Giersch, who named G-Mail after himself and applied for a German trademark as early as 2000, won a permanent injunction against Google earlier this year, preventing the company from offering Gmail.com email addresses [...]
Shangri-La: Land of Eternal Youth?
In a recent WIPO arbitration case, the owner of ShangriLa.com lost the domain to an Asian hotel group by the same name.
The panel in charge of the case noted that even though the expression "Shangri-La" had originated in a 1933 novel and has a dictionary meaning, the registrant had also registered the domain fourseason.com, allegedly [...]
Inventor of "MOTORAZR" Wins Domain Dispute Against Motorola
Mobile phone company Motorola has failed in its attempt to appropriate the domain name MOTORAZR.com without compensation from the domain's original registrant, Vincent Nguyen of R3 Media.
Nguyen, who runs the phone and gadget review sites SlashPhone and SlashGear, had coined the expression MOTORAZR in July 2004, which led to his registration of MOTORAZR.com for a [...]
Would The Real Morris Iemma Please Stand Up?
Morris Iemma, the Premier of New South Wales (Australia) and leader of the state's Labor Party, has fallen victim to the competing Liberal Party, which registered MorrisIemma.com and recently launched an aggressive pre-election video on the domain.
Mr. Iemma's actual website is located at MorrisIemma.com.au. It is not known why the politician had failed to register [...]
Google Goes After Polish Poets In Microsoft-Style Legal Attack
Google has launched legal action against the Polish Grupa Młodych Artystów i Literatów (GMAil), or Group of Young Artists and Writers, over the domain name gmail.pl which the group had registered on November 1, 2006.
Izabela Krawczyk of GMAiL told news agency Agence France-Presse that Google had turned to Poland's IT and telecommunications tribunal to try [...]
UK domain registry considers changing dispute rules
Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, is considering several changes to the current rules governing its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS), which is similar to ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, or UDRP.