disputed domain names

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• - German radio station sues for journalist's .org domain.
  
• - Text of decision to transfer eReferee.com, .org, and .net from Planet Ref, Inc. to Referee magazine.
  
• - In one of the broadest crackdowns ever issued against a domain name holder, a federal judge orders eReferee.com to stop using the word referee in all of its domain names. By Lisa M. Bowman.
  
• - Researchers analyzing an arbitration system set up to resolve disputes over Internet addresses have found that decisions made through the system have substantially broadened the rights of trademark holders in cyberspace. [NY Times]
  
• - nissan.com and nissan.net domain dispute between Nissan Motor and Nissan Computer
  
• - A group of individuals and small business seeking to help persons involved in disputes, and educate others about Internet freedom issues. Includes forums and archived documents.
  
• - A group of Internet top-level domain (TLD) holders have formed a nonprofit association to prevent what they fear will become a splintered Internet domain naming system.
  
• - Six months after ruling that the Internet domain name Barcelona.com should be taken away from its current owners and handed to the Spanish city with the similar name, the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has taken a different stand in
  
• - A boy in Belgium, Europe with the nick "zkboi" has been sued at June, 11, 2001 by Zurcher Kantonal Bank (ZKB) to pay up to 2000US$ and 250US$/day for using his nickname on the Internet.
  
• - Organization promoting the registration of domain names similar to ones used by well-known hate groups.
  
• - An article on typosquatting - capitalizing on mistyped names.
  
• - Information about Leonardo and etoy disputes, links to resources to fight unfriendly take-overs.
  
• - New York State Fair disputes Scott Brady's NYSFair.com.
  
• - Information on how to deal with domain name dispute issues (UDRP).
  
• - Article about Reuters' refusal to relinquish reters.com to Mr. Stanley Reters. By Kieren McCarthy.
  
• - Instructions on filing complaints or responses, details of specific dispute resolution services, and an archive of past decisions.
  
• - Another site disputed by Guinness plc.
  
• - FAQs and advice on how to defend against claims of domain name trademark infringement and other legal scare tactics, compiled by students at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
  
• - Documents the failed attempt by the American Film Marketing Association to seize the domain name afm.com (American Flea Market).
  
• - Documents relating to America.com's attempted seizure of "tobacco.com", registered in 1995, by trademarking the domain name in 2001 and filing a false cybersquatting complaint.
  
• - ICANN and WIPO - Important Warning
  
• - Domain name dispute news. Links to news articles and full text of WIPO, NAF, and eResolution decisions.
  
• - A case study documenting over 5000 registrations by notorious cybersquatter John Zuccarini. Most are typographic variations on well-known names, most provide sexually-explicit content and popups, and some are variants on sites typically used by children.
  
• - An article discussing the fate of fandom.tv.
  
• - Press release on dismissal of trademark claims against jaguarcenter.com, jaguarentusiastsclub.com, vintagevolvo.com, and others, and denying "in rem" jurisdiction.
  
• - Petter Rindforth, an arbitrator assigned by WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center to handle the ICQPlus.org dispute, ruled this month that Russian programmer Vadim Eremeev of St. Petersburg can keep the domain because he doesn't charge for the popular s
  
• - Documents related to UDRP proceeding Savin Corp. v. savinsucks.com.
  
• - "Movie actor Kevin Spacey has lost a landmark court battle over ownership of www.kevinspacey.com." By Kieren McCarthy.
  
• - Ferrero wants to protect its brand in cyberspace, as Austrian kids' charity kinder.at recently discovered. Concerned that the organisation has taken the little-known German word kinder (children) as its domain name, Ferrero has run whining to WIPO. By Les
  
• - Overview of trademark protection for country code domain names marketed as alternatives to top level domains.
  
• - Collection of legal advice, and general resources, for people involved in domain name disputes. Provides information and documentation from the webmaster's own dispute.
  
• - News of America Online demanding the pengaol.org domain name and reader comments.