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- Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre - Hong Kong+based dispute resolution institute offers a procedural guide for claims filed by trademark owners. Includes an index of decisions made in each of its three branches.
- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: Domain Names and Trademarks - 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 and Society at Harvard Law School.
- CPR: Domain Name Rules - Provides the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution's (CPR) supplemental rules and fee schedule for hearing domain name cases. List of panelists and precendents.
- Large+Scale Registration of Domains with Typographical Errors - 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.
- NAF Decision: Referee Enterprises Inc vs. Planet Ref. Inc - Text of decision to transfer eReferee.com, .org, and .net from Planet Ref, Inc. to Referee magazine.
- National Arbitration Forum: Domain Dispute - Instructions on filing complaints or responses, details of specific dispute resolution services, and an archive of past decisions.
- Nissan Motor vs. Nissan Computer - nissan.com and nissan.net domain dispute between Nissan Motor and Nissan Computer
- Shame On The AFMA - Documents the failed attempt by the American Film Marketing Association to seize the domain name afm.com (American Flea Market).
- Trademark Protection on the Internet in for Non Top+Level Domains Used as Top+level Domains - Overview of trademark protection for country code domain names marketed as alternatives to top level domains.
- Typosquatters Turn Flubs Into Cash - An article on typosquatting + capitalizing on mistyped names.
- World Domain Rights - Information about Leonardo and etoy disputes, links to resources to fight unfriendly take+overs.
- World Intellectual Piracy Organization - ICANN and WIPO + Important Warning
- Slashdot: AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover - News of America Online demanding the pengaol.org domain name and reader comments. (October 12, 2002)
- In Fights Over .Com Names, Trademark Owners Usually Win - 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] (June 24, 2002)
- EFF Wins Partial Victory in Ford Case - Press release on dismissal of trademark claims against jaguarcenter.com, jaguarentusiastsclub.com, vintagevolvo.com, and others, and denying "in rem" jurisdiction. (January 10, 2002)
- Register: Kevin Spacey Loses Pivotal Cybersquatting Court Case - "Movie actor Kevin Spacey has lost a landmark court battle over ownership of www.kevinspacey.com." By Kieren McCarthy. (November 26, 2001)
- kuro5hin: Using of a Nickname and Websites Sued Because of Three Matching Letters - 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. (September 25, 2001)
- Register: Reuters Cybersquats on Man's Domain - Article about Reuters' refusal to relinquish reters.com to Mr. Stanley Reters. By Kieren McCarthy. (September 21, 2001)
- kuro5hin: New York State Is Taking Away My Domain Name - New York State Fair disputes Scott Brady's NYSFair.com. (August 22, 2001)
- CNN: New Group Formed to Resolve Domain Conflicts - 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. (May 21, 2001)
- CNet: Judge approves domain name penalty on eReferee - 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. (February 16, 2001)
- Register: Choc giant heavies 'kinder' charity - 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 Lester Haines. (December 27, 2000)
- Who Owns Fandom - An article discussing the fate of fandom.tv. (December 13, 2000)
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