Last day to apply for .xxx Sunrise registrations
Today is the (extended) last day to apply for .xxx Sunrise registrations, to prevent other parties from later registering a domain name with your trademark in it. More information here. I don’t think it’s been definitively decided whether the UDRP will apply to .xxx domains or whether the URS (“rapid suspension”) system will be in place; but that’s a minor detail when you can go ahead and protect your brand right now. (Also, if anyone has any definitive answers on that, let me know and I’ll update here.)
Update: UDRP does apply and URS doesn’t. Thanks to Kevin Murphy (@DomainIncite) for reminding me!
New site design
Please excuse the lack of content lately, it’s been a very busy July. On top of all of the usual life things that seem to happen during the summer, I’ve been going through a site redesign. If you come across anything that’s broken or that you don’t like, please let me know by e-mail. Thanks for reading!
Now collaborating with Evan Brown
I’ve begun a collaboration with Evan Brown, a well-known (and highly respected) lawyer based out of Chicago who focuses on Internet law. You can find him on Twitter @internetcases, as well as Facebook, etc. I hope you’ll hop on over there and take a look! Here’s the link to my first post there: http://udrptracker.internetcases.com/2011/06/servair-loses-udrp-on-serv-air-com/
NAF’s new e-mail subscription for UDRP decisions
The National Arbitration Forum (NAF) has finally set up an e-mail subscription service for UDRP panel decisions. You can find the link to subscribe here.
And of course WIPO’s e-mail subscription service is located here.
Happy Holidays!
Finally back from vacation, sorry for the radio silence. It was a great one, extended week at the family farm with my parents, the kids were spoiled rotten and behaved well for the most part, Laura caught a cold and gave it to me on the way back to Atlanta, but I’m mostly recovered now. A good time was had by all but it’s nice to be back home and back to the routine. Look for more posts in the coming days as I play catch up!
Branding and your domain name
This is a great discussion of what you should think about in selecting a domain name for your brand.
http://launch.is/blog/2010/12/3/how-to-name-your-startup-and-land-the-perfect-domain.html
apology & announcement
Sorry for the lack of content lately – we had a baby on September 15, so I’m still digging out from under the mountain of email and other work. I have a few UDRP cases to comment on today and tomorrow, so look for some new posts shortly.
And, it’s a girl! Mom and daughter are both doing fine, and her big sister (21 months) is adjusting well.
Now qualified as expert UDRP lawyer! (sort of)
Hey, check me out, I am now an “expert” UDRP lawyer.
(I should qualify that – I’m just a lawyer!)
Nemo.
On Calculated Risk, an excellent finance & economics blog, the first commenter to a new post will typically give a cry of “Nemo!”, a sort of homage to the notoriously fast commenter (and owner of Self-evident.org). This, then, is the title of my first post! Still working on getting the site up and running, but it’s looking good so far.