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- Cybersquatters Against Hate - - Organization promoting the registration of domain names similar to ones used by well-known hate groups.
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- 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.
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- DomainBattles - - Domain name dispute news. Links to news articles and full text of WIPO, NAF, and eResolution decisions.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Savin Sucks - - Documents related to UDRP proceeding Savin Corp. v. savinsucks.com.
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- Shame On The AFMA - - Documents the failed attempt by the American Film Marketing Association to seize the domain name afm.com (American Flea Market).
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- World Domain Rights - - Information about Leonardo and etoy disputes, links to resources to fight unfriendly take-overs.
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- 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] (June 24, 2002)
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- 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. (January 10, 2002)
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- 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. (February 27, 2001)
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- 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. (February 16, 2001)
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- 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. (February 14, 2001)
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- 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. (December 27, 2000)
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- Who Owns Fandom - - An article discussing the fate of fandom.tv. (December 13, 2000)
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- DL2MCD.de - - German radio station sues for journalist's .org domain. (January 4, 2000)
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