Archive for August, 2009
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Most brand owners are likely familiar with eBay’s Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) program for requesting de-listings of illegal auction listings and that eBay has a solid track record for removing infringing listings – close to 100%, in fact.
What may be lesser known is that many major online marketplaces – including ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
For years, corporate domain name administrators have scoffed at every new second-level and third-level ccTLD liberalization, and rightly so. Until recently, most had continued the practice of registering significant numbers of variations, misspellings and typo-squats.
While I have never encouraged the practice of registering every variation in every geography, as this becomes ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
It may not be widely-known but the big 3 search engines – Google, Yahoo! and Bing – have established procedures for removing natural search results on the basis of the DMCA. That’s good news for brand owners: if consumers can’t find infringing websites via the search engines, they’re less likely to ...
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