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 Society at Harvard Law School.
Meta Description: [ Speaker or cybersquatter? Consumer advocate or source of consumer confusion? Those who speak online are tagged with these labels -- and threatened with lawsuits -- based on the domain names they use to draw traffic to their site. Commercial entities, meanwhile, spend huge amounts of money to d... ]

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.
Meta Description: [ 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. | February 16, 2001, 4:00 AM PT | Lisa M. Bowman ]

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.
Meta Description: [ A new association that's not affiliated with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has been created to bring together Internet top-level domain holders, in an effort to prevent conflicting TLDs and bottlenecks online. , Although the feds aren't talking publicly about a three-ye... ]

Cybersquatters Against Hate - Organization promoting the registration of domain names similar to ones used by well-known hate groups.

DL2MCD.de - German radio station sues for journalist's .org domain.

Domain Dispute Resource - Information on how to deal with domain name dispute issues (UDRP).

DomainBattles - Domain name dispute news. Links to news articles and full text of WIPO, NAF, and eResolution decisions.
Meta Description: [ domainbattles.com ]

Easy Protest II - Collection of legal advice, and general resources, for people involved in domain name disputes. Provides information and documentation from the webmaster's own dispute.

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.
Meta Description: [ Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Advisory: EFF Wins a Partial Victory in Ford Case On December 20, 2001, the Eastern District of Michigan Court handed down several rulings in Ford v. Great Domains, et al. In that case, EFF, along with pro bono counsel Eric Grimm and David Lowenshuss, repr... ]

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]

kuro5hin: New York State Is Taking Away My Domain Name - New York State Fair disputes Scott Brady's NYSFair.com.

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.

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.
Meta Description: [ Documentation of 'typosquatting' domains by John Zuccarini. Many domains show unexpected sexually-explicit content and prevent a user from easily exiting. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Since 1986, the National Arbitration Forum has been a leading neutral administrator of arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) worldwide. An unbiased administrator of ADR services, the Forum's only mission is to provide superior dispute resolution services t... ]

NewsBytes: WIPO Sends Message To AOL In ICQ Domain-Name Dispute - 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 software he promotes on a Web site at that address. By Steven Bonisteel.

Nissan Motor vs. Nissan Computer - nissan.com and nissan.net domain dispute between Nissan Motor and Nissan Computer
Meta Description: [ Nissan Computer Corporation & Nissan Motor Co. LTD domain name dispute over domain names nissan.com and nissan.net ]

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.

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.

Register: Reuters Cybersquats on Man's Domain - Article about Reuters' refusal to relinquish reters.com to Mr. Stanley Reters. By Kieren McCarthy.

500 Savin Sucks - Documents related to UDRP proceeding Savin Corp. v. savinsucks.com.

Shame On The AFMA - Documents the failed attempt by the American Film Marketing Association to seize the domain name afm.com (American Flea Market).
Meta Description: [ The AFMA, The American Film Marketing Association is attempting to steal a domain name......AFM.COM, domain name rights. ]

Slashdot: AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover - News of America Online demanding the pengaol.org domain name and reader comments.
Meta Description: [ AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover -- article related to America Online and Your Rights Online. ]

The Domain Name Rights Coalition - DNRC - 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.
Meta Description: [ Psycho ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Information about the tradmark process ]

Typosquatters Turn Flubs Into Cash - An article on typosquatting - capitalizing on mistyped names.
Meta Description: [ Mistyping a name takes you to the wrong site and possibly a hidden banner click that typosquatters will cash in. ]

Washington Post: Clear Sailing For PortOfHelsinki.com In Domain Dispute - 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 dispute over an Internet address referring to the Port of Helsinki. By Steven Bonisteel.

Who Owns Fandom - An article discussing the fate of fandom.tv.

World Domain Rights - Information about Leonardo and etoy disputes, links to resources to fight unfriendly take-overs.
Meta Description: [ WDR - World Domain Rights: Who owns what in Cyberspace? See examples of big companies, trying totake over domains and learn what you can do against it. ]

World Intellectual Piracy Organization - ICANN and WIPO - Important Warning
Meta Description: [ ICANN and WIPO - Important Warning ]