Domain Name Disputes
A few days ago, I posted a link to a site about websites that have ridiculous policies about linking to them. After rooting around on his main site a bit, I found out something else that this guy David Sork does. He apparently is an attorney and serves on a panel for domain name dispute proceedings arising under the ICANN and other dispute policies. He posts them to his site with the full details of the dispute, complaints and end result. The one I found that was pretty funny, was a complaint by 1-800-mattres with a company that had registered the domain name matress.com claiming that they were stealing market share from them due to their customers spelling the word mattress wrong. They also claimed that they should have rights to domains that have any iteration of the word "mattress" spelled wrong, right or otherwise. They lost the case.
Enjoy this link. He has all of them posted.
Posted by
Dave at 08:39 PM