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Draft 7-17-11 an EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS of FAIR USE
Draft 7-17-11 AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF FAIR USE DECISIONS UNDER THE UNIFORM DOMAIN-NAME DISPUTE-RESOLUTION POLICY David A. Simon INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 1 I. THE UDRP AND ITS PROBLEMS ............................................................................................................... 7 II. METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................................................................... 12 A. Sample Selection: Method of Selection .......................................................................................... 13 B. Types of Cases Selected for Sample............................................................................................... 14 III. FINDINGS ................................................................................................................................................ 17 A. U.S. Respondents Win Twice as Many Fair Use Cases as Other Respondents ............................. 17 B. U.S. Law Dominates UDRP Decisions .......................................................................................... 21 C. U.S. Panels Decide Mostly Cases Involving U.S. Respondents ..................................................... 23 IV. IMPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................................................ 25 A. Explaining U.S. Favoritism -
Outcomes Report of the GNSO Ad Hoc Group on Domain Tasting
GNSO Outcomes Report on Domain Tasting Doc. No.: Date: 2007/02/04 4 October, 2007 OUTCOMES REPORT OF THE GNSO AD HOC GROUP ON DOMAIN NAME TASTING 4 October 2007 Group Chair: Mike Rodenbaugh ICANN Staff: Olof Nordling, Patrick Jones STATUS OF THIS DOCUMENT This is the final version of the Outcomes Report from the GNSO ad hoc group on Domain Name Tasting, submitted to the GNSO Council on 4 October, 2007. GNSO Outcomes Report on Domain Tasting v1.6 Authors: Mike Rodenbaugh, [email protected] , Olof Nordling, [email protected] , Patrick Jones, [email protected], Page 1 of 144 GNSO Outcomes Report on Domain Tasting Doc. No.: Date: 2007/02/04 4 October, 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 2 OBJECTIVE 5 3 BACKGROUND 7 4 OUTCOMES 10 5 NEXT STEPS 32 ANNEX 1 - SUBSCRIBERS TO THE DT LIST 33 ANNEX 2 - RFI RESPONSES 34 ANNEX 3 - EXPERIENCES FROM CCTLDS 97 ANNEX 4 - COMMENTS FROM UDRP PROVIDERS 104 ANNEX 5 – IPC CONSTITUENCY SUPPLEMENTAL RFI116 ANNEX 6 – REQUEST TO VERISIGN 144 GNSO Outcomes Report on Domain Tasting v1.6 Authors: Mike Rodenbaugh, [email protected] , Olof Nordling, [email protected] , Patrick Jones, [email protected], Page 2 of 144 GNSO Outcomes Report on Domain Tasting Doc. No.: Date: 2007/02/04 4 October, 2007 1 Executive summary 1.1 Background Following a request from the At-Large Advisory Committee in spring 2007, the GNSO Council called for an Issues Report on Domain Tasting from ICANN Staff in May 2007. This Issues Report, available at http://gnso.icann.org/issues/domain- tasting/gnso-domain-tasting-report-14jun07.pdf was discussed at the ICANN San Juan meeting, where the GNSO Council on 27 June 2007 (minutes at http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-27jun07.shtml) resolved to establish an ad hoc group for further fact-finding on the practice of domain tasting. -
The Secondary Market for Domain Names”, OECD Digital Economy Papers, No
Please cite this paper as: OECD (2006-04-12), “The Secondary Market for Domain Names”, OECD Digital Economy Papers, No. 111, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/231550251200 OECD Digital Economy Papers No. 111 The Secondary Market for Domain Names OECD Unclassified DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)9/FINAL Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 12-Apr-2006 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________ English - Or. English DIRECTORATE FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEE FOR INFORMATION, COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS POLICY Unclassified DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)9/FINAL Working Party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policies THE SECONDARY MARKET FOR DOMAIN NAMES English - Or. English JT03207431 Document complet disponible sur OLIS dans son format d'origine Complete document available on OLIS in its original format DSTI/ICCP(2005)9/FINAL FOREWORD This report was presented to the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Services Policies (TISP) in December 2005 and was declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policies (ICCP) in March 2006. This report was prepared by Ms. Karine Perset, with the participation of Mr. Dimitri Ypsilanti, both of the OECD's Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. This report is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. 2 DSTI/ICCP(2005)9/FINAL © OECD/OCDE 2006 3 DSTI/ICCP(2005)9/FINAL -
Understanding and Analyzing Malicious Domain Take-Downs
Cracking the Wall of Confinement: Understanding and Analyzing Malicious Domain Take-downs Eihal Alowaisheq1,2, Peng Wang1, Sumayah Alrwais2, Xiaojing Liao1, XiaoFeng Wang1, Tasneem Alowaisheq1,2, Xianghang Mi1, Siyuan Tang1, and Baojun Liu3 1Indiana University, Bloomington. fealowais, pw7, xliao, xw7, talowais, xm, [email protected] 2King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [email protected] 3Tsinghua University, [email protected] Abstract—Take-down operations aim to disrupt cybercrime “clean”, i.e., no longer involved in any malicious activities. involving malicious domains. In the past decade, many successful Challenges in understanding domain take-downs. Although take-down operations have been reported, including those against the Conficker worm, and most recently, against VPNFilter. domain seizures are addressed in ICANN guidelines [55] Although it plays an important role in fighting cybercrime, the and in other public articles [14, 31, 38], there is a lack of domain take-down procedure is still surprisingly opaque. There prominent and comprehensive understanding of the process. seems to be no in-depth understanding about how the take-down In-depth exploration is of critical importance for combating operation works and whether there is due diligence to ensure its cybercrime but is by no means trivial. The domain take-down security and reliability. process is rather opaque and quite complicated. In particular, In this paper, we report the first systematic study on domain it involves several steps (complaint submission, take-down takedown. Our study was made possible via a large collection execution, and release, see SectionII). It also involves multiple of data, including various sinkhole feeds and blacklists, passive parties (authorities, registries, and registrars), and multiple DNS data spanning six years, and historical WHOIS informa- domain management elements (DNS, WHOIS, and registry tion. -
How to Efficiently Protect a Domain Name?
Comparative Law Review 22 2016 Nicolaus Copernicus University http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/CLR.2016.010 Monika Gaczkowska HOW TO EFFICIENTLY PROTECT A DOMAIN NAME? Abstract Cybercrime rates are increasing in Poland and throughout the world. There are many types of offences concerning internet domains, among others, cybersquatting, typosquatting, cyber smearing, and cyberwildcatting. The following article is a comparative study of the settlement of disputes concerning internet domain names taking as an example the Domain Name Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center. Between the two processes of recovery of the domains there are many similarities. During the study legislation was sought in the Polish legal system, which is related to internet domains. In Poland, there is no particular legal regulation regarding internet domain names. One may search for protective measures in the Act on Combating Unfair Competition [o zwalczaniu nieuczciwej konkurencji], Industrial Property Law [Prawo własności przemysłowej], and the Civil Code [Kodeks cywilny]. This article commends the settlement of disputes through arbitration and describes them in detail. Keywords cybersquatting – typosquatting – cyber smearing – cyberwildcatting – disputes – internet domains * Monika Gaczkowska graduated from the Warsaw University’s Faculty of Law and Administration. She was an Erasmus student at the Faculty of Law and the International Business Programme of the University of Alicante. She is currently, a PhD student in the field of IP law at Koźmiński University in Warsaw. She participated in postgraduate studies in IT law. She works in one of the leading law firms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CEE/SEE). -
Enom Plug-In Configuration Guide Parallels Plesk Automation Billing Revision 1.1
eNom Plug-in Configuration Guide Parallels Plesk Automation Billing Revision 1.1 Copyright © 1999-2013 Parallels IP Holdings GmbH and its affiliates. All rights reserved. Parallels IP Holdings GmbH. Vordergasse 59 CH8200 Schaffhausen Switzerland Tel: + 41 526320 411 Fax: + 41 52672 2010 www.parallels.com Copyright © 1999-2013 Parallels IP Holdings GmbH and its affiliates. All rights reserved. This product is protected by United States and international copyright laws. The product’s underlying technology, patents, and trademarks are listed at http://www.parallels.com/trademarks Microsoft, Windows, Windows Server, Windows NT, Windows Vista, and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Mac is a registered trademark of Apple, Inc. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Contents Preface ....................................................................................................................... 4 Documentation Conventions ............................................................................................. 4 Typographical Conventions ............................................................................................... 4 Feedback .......................................................................................................................... 5 About Domain Registrars .......................................................................................... 6 Domain Registrar Configuration -
PREDATOR: Proactive Recognition and Elimination of Domain Abuse at Time-Of-Registration
PREDATOR: Proactive Recognition and Elimination of Domain Abuse at Time-Of-Registration Shuang Hao∗ Alex Kantcheliany Brad Millerx Vern Paxson† Nick Feamsterz ∗ y University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Berkeley x z Google, Inc. International Computer Science Institute Princeton University [email protected] {akant,vern}@cs.berkeley.edu [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT content [18, 53]. To mitigate these threats, operators routinely build Miscreants register thousands of new domains every day to launch reputation systems for domain names to indicate whether they are Internet-scale attacks, such as spam, phishing, and drive-by down- associated with malicious activity. A common mode for developing loads. Quickly and accurately determining a domain’s reputation reputation for DNS domain names is to develop a blacklist that curates (association with malicious activity) provides a powerful tool for mit- “bad domains”. A network operator who wishes to defend against an igating threats and protecting users. Yet, existing domain reputation attack may use a domain blacklist to help determine whether certain systems work by observing domain use (e.g., lookup patterns, content traffic or infrastructure is associated with malicious activity. hosted)—often too late to prevent miscreants from reaping benefits of Unfortunately, curating a DNS blacklist is difficult because of the attacks that they launch. the high rate of domain registrations and the variety of attacks. For As a complement to these systems, we explore the extent to which example, every day around 80,000 new domains are registered in features evident at domain registration indicate a domain’s subsequent the .com zone, with a peak rate of over 1,800 registrations in a sin- use for malicious activity. -
Unclassified DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)9/FINAL
Unclassified DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)9/FINAL Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 12-Apr-2006 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________ English - Or. English DIRECTORATE FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEE FOR INFORMATION, COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS POLICY Unclassified DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)9/FINAL Working Party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policies THE SECONDARY MARKET FOR DOMAIN NAMES English - Or. English JT03207431 Document complet disponible sur OLIS dans son format d'origine Complete document available on OLIS in its original format DSTI/ICCP(2005)9/FINAL FOREWORD This report was presented to the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Services Policies (TISP) in December 2005 and was declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policies (ICCP) in March 2006. This report was prepared by Ms. Karine Perset, with the participation of Mr. Dimitri Ypsilanti, both of the OECD's Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. This report is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. 2 DSTI/ICCP(2005)9/FINAL © OECD/OCDE 2006 3 DSTI/ICCP(2005)9/FINAL TABLE OF CONTENTS MAIN POINTS ...............................................................................................................................................5 INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................7 -
1 Testimony of Paul Stahura Founder of Enom and Chief Strategy Officer for Demand Media House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcom
Testimony of Paul Stahura Founder of eNom and Chief Strategy Officer for Demand Media House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy Hearing on the Expansion of Top Level Domains and its Effects on Competition September 23, 2009 Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Coble, Members of the subcommittee: good morning and thank you for inviting me to testify today. I am the Founder of eNom, a Bellevue, WA based corporation and domain name registrar. Registrars are companies which are authorized by ICANN to sell domain names like pizza.com or fightcancer.org. eNom is also a provider of websites and email services. eNom is the second largest ICANN accredited domain name registrar, by volume, in the world. It powers over 10 million domain names on its platform and connects Internet users to websites two billion times each day. Our executives have been involved in nearly every aspect of the domain name system from technical, policy and business perspectives at both registries and registrars, and dating back to the early years of Internet commerce before ICANN even existed. eNom’s parent company is Demand Media, a company that develops, promotes, and distributes web content. It is a top-25 web property worldwide in terms of unique visitors to its network of Internet media properties such as eHow.com. Livestrong.com, trails.com, and golflink.com. Demand Media is also the largest distributor of videos to YouTube and is widely considered to be at the forefront of social media. I started eNom in 1997 in my garage in Redmond, Washington with one small computer on an ISDN line, and now the company is one of the largest domain name registrars in the world with hundreds of employees, loads of servers in five locations and millions of domain names under our management. -
Sued Enom and Tucows
Case 2:17-cv-01310-RSM Document 1 Filed 08/30/17 Page 1 of 27 1 HON.___________________ 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 AT SEATTLE 9 NAMECHEAP, INC., a Delaware Case No. 2:17-cv-1310 corporation, 10 COMPLAINT FOR: Plaintiff, 11 v. 1. BREACH OF CONTRACT 12 2. BREACH OF CONTRACT—SPECIFIC TUCOWS, INC., a Pennsylvania PERFORMANCE 13 corporation; ENOM, INC., a Nevada 3. BREACH OF IMPLIED DUTY OF corporation; and DOES 1 through 10, GOOD FAITH AND FAIR DEALING 14 Defendants. 4. UNJUST ENRICHMENT 15 DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL 16 17 Plaintiff Namecheap, Inc. (“Plaintiff” or “Namecheap”), by and through its undersigned 18 attorneys, hereby complains against Defendant Tucows, Inc. (“Tucows”), Defendant eNom, Inc. 19 (“eNom” and collectively with Tucows, “Defendants”), and defendants identified as Does 1 20 through 10 (“Doe Defendants”) as follows: 21 NATURE OF THE ACTION 22 1. Namecheap brings this action against eNom and its successor-in-interest, Tucows, 23 to enforce a contractual obligation to transfer all Namecheap-managed domains on the eNom 24 platform to Namecheap. A true and correct copy of the July 31, 2015 Master Agreement 25 executed by Namecheap, on the one hand, and eNom and United TLD Holding Co., Ltd. trading 26 as Rightside Registry (“Rightside”), on the other hand (the “Master Agreement”) is attached as 27 Exhibit A, with redactions to preserve confidentiality of information not relevant to this dispute. focal PLLC COMPLAINT 900 1st Avenue S., Suite 201 CASE NO. _______________ - 1 Seattle, WA 98134 Tel (206) 529-4827 Fax (206) 260-3966 Case 2:17-cv-01310-RSM Document 1 Filed 08/30/17 Page 2 of 27 1 2. -
Terms of Service
Domain Registration/Domain Transfer/Domain Renewal Contract TERMS OF SERVICE This contract is between Enter.Net, Inc., located at 815 N 12th Street, Allentown PA 18102, ("Enter.Net") and you, Enter.Net’s customer, ("Customer" or "you" or "domain registrant" or "registrant") and is effective when accepted by Enter.Net, Inc. You are ordering a new domain name (domain registration - domain name means a name that identifies the internet address for your service), or transferring or renewing an existing domain name as stated on your Application or invoice. Enter.Net, Inc. may accept or reject your order for any reason. Such reason(s) may include, but are not limited to, your request for registration of a prohibited or questionable domain name. Enter.Net will register your domain name/names with Enom ("domain registrar" or "registrar" - registrar means an organization that manages internet domain names) or the registrar that Enter.Net is using at the time which you enter into this contract. The length of this contract is the period of time that a domain name is registered for, which is currently either a 1-year, 2-year, 5-year and 10-year period. You will select one of these time periods. Our Services: Enter.Net, Inc. is a reseller of domain names. This means that Enter.Net is authorized to register domain names on behalf of you through a registrar. Your domain registration will take place once all of the following has been completed: 1. Enter.Net. receives and accepts this Contract and your domain registration application, renewal and/or transfer application. -
Hosting Controller 7C Reseller Guide
Reseller Manuals HOSTING CONTROLLER 7C RESELLER GUIDE. © Hosting Controller 1998 - 2007 Reseller Manuals INTRODUCTION ............................................... 7 WHAT IS HC7..................................................................................................................7 HC7 FEATURES AT A GLANCE ..........................................................................................7 HC7 SECTIONS AND SUBSECTIONS ................................................................................8 GENERAL ................................................... 8 USER MANAGER ......................................................................................................................9 SEARCHING A USER........................................................................................................9 VIEWING DETAILS OF YOUR USERS ...............................................................................9 ADDING A NEW USER ...................................................................................................10 EDITING THE ACCOUNT OF A USER...............................................................................12 EDITING THE PROFILE OF A PARTICULAR USER ...........................................................13 VIEWING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF YOUR USERS ...........................................................13 EDITING THE BILLING PROFILE OF A USER..................................................................14 HOW TO AUTO LOG A USER'S PANEL ............................................................................14