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12 Common Mistakes Made By Bad Faith Cybersquatters

• Comment posted Jan 21, 2008 2:05 pm PST — by Brian Hall
  Most of these 12 Common Mistakes can be avoided by doing one thing: Hire an Attorney.  Ideally, the attorney is hired at the outset and can advise a "domainer" regarding the level of risk associated with a particular domain.  The…

Typosquatting: A Solution

• Comment posted Feb 13, 2008 10:03 pm PST — by Brian Hall
  Interesting proposals.  I would assume the domainer community would not like IPonFire's choice of words.  Domainers vehemently reject any affiliation with typosquatters.  I am skeptical about giving typosquatters yet another incentive, besides click-through traffic, to register domain names incorporating typographical…

UDRP: The Liabilities for the Corporations and/or their Lawyers

• Comment posted Feb 28, 2008 7:39 pm PST — by Brian Hall
  UK ICANN accredited registrars seem to have implemented a way to discourage a new form of pagewaxing.  In doing so, they are keeping with the general movement toward providing relief for those improperly subjected to the legal process for expressing…

Don't Register Your Domain in the U.S. if it's Controversial

• Comment posted Mar 05, 2008 7:10 pm PST — by Brian Hall
  John I couldn't agree with you more.  There is a big difference between censoring speech in violation of the First Amendment (referred to as pagewaxing) and enforcement of United States laws regarding commercial activity.  There seems to be a definite…

ICANN Board Approves Sweeping Overhaul of Top-level Domains

• Comment posted Jun 26, 2008 5:38 pm PDT — by Brian Hall
  This is good news for the trademark owners who have the budget and wherewithall to secure gTLDs corresponding to their marks.  However, this is will undoubtedly provide yet another avenue for cybersquatters to prey upon the valuable marks of entities…

June Court Decision Detrimental to Domaining Practices

• Comment posted Aug 04, 2008 3:01 pm PDT — by Brian Hall
  The question becomes what can domainers do to improve "the standard risk-management that domainers claim protect them from cybersquatting liability." The trademark "scrubbing" obviously did not serve its purpose here.  These domains are not even arguably generic or merely descriptive,…

Who Should Bear Domain Name Risk?

• Comment posted Oct 06, 2008 2:58 pm PDT — by Brian Hall
  The article I referenced can be accessed here.

• Comment posted Oct 06, 2008 2:56 pm PDT — by Brian Hall
  Alex, You appear to presuppose that ConAgra had not already considered how to react in light of such a recall that would undoubtedly cause a PR nightmare.  Had they discussed it, identified the means by which they could mitigate the…

Google's Eric Schmidt: Internet Becoming a Cesspool Where Brands Are Increasing Important

• Comment posted Oct 08, 2008 9:54 pm PDT — by Brian Hall
  The quotes offered by Mr. Schmidt recognize the numerous issues, legal or otherwise, facing Internet companies today.  How do companies separate themselves from the "cesspool" on the Internet in order to come up Page 1 on Google?  How does a…