Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Online fakes can be a lucrative business and difficult to crack down on, due to the ease and low-cost of setting up multiple virtual storefronts and the ability to obfuscate an operation’s identity. A federal lawsuit filed on March 1, 2010 by Polo Ralph Lauren and VF Corp. illustrates these ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
You have to give scammers credit, as they are a creative bunch. While most of us think of the annual open enrollment period for employee benefits as a non-event, scammers see it as an opportunity.
Just last month we’ve seen suspicious sites targeting employees of some of the largest corporations. In ...
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Last week, MarkMonitor hosted a webinar with Internet Retailer and our guest speaker from 1-800-FLOWERS.COM on the topic of How to Reduce Traffic Diversion & Other Cyber Abuse. During the webinar, we polled audience members to gauge what their top challenge is in managing their brands online. We learned that ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
We released the Summer 2008 edition of our Brandjacking Index earlier this week. You can download a copy of the report here. We publish this report to shed light on the variety of brand abuses that target leading brands and to demonstrate how those abuses can harm the public as ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Are you tired about all the hoopla over the recent ICANN meeting in Paris and the decisions made there? The most controversial is the decision to open-up the web to more top-level domains (.tld). In brief, brandholders and others will be able to create new custom .tld’s. These might include generic ones ...
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