Peaches Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 Domain-name wars: Rise of the cybersquattersTrademark owners say cybersquatting on the Web has gone too far -- and they're pushing back.By Robert L. MitchellJune 25, 2009 12:01 AM ETComputerworld - When the Web site FreeLegoPorn.com began publishing pornographic images created with Lego toys, trademark owner Lego Juris AS, which sells the popular plastic building blocks for children, acted quickly. "The content available on the site consisted of animated mini-figures doing very explicit things. We were not amused," says Peter Kjaer, an attorney for Billund, Denmark-based Lego.Lego didn't go to court. Instead it filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center, which ruled in its favor. The domain registrar for FreeLegoPorn.com, Scottsdale, Ariz.-based GoDaddy.com Inc., eventually shut down the site and transferred the domain name to Lego, in compliance with the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (often called the UDRP), a procedure set up by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to address domain-name brand abuse.story at computerworld - http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...ticleId=9134605>>>>>>>>>>>>> Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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