Google recently won two UDRP decisions against cybersquatters involving what I refer to as “lookalike” domain names because of their visual similarity to Google’s trademarks: <g00glemaps.com> (which replaced the two letter o’s in “Google” with two number zeros instead) and <qooglemaps.com> (which replaced the first letter “g” in Google with the letter “q” instead).

The “Oki Data Test” describes one of the earliest and most important questions ever addressed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP): Can an authorized sales or service agent of trademarked goods use the trademark at issue in its domain name?

After only three quarters of the year, the number of cases filed at WIPO, which is the largest and most active of all of the domain name dispute providers, has already almost reached the level for the total number of cases in 2020. That’s just one of the headlines from the newest issue of GigaLaw’s Domain Dispute Digest (Q3 2021).

An Indian company known as Nalli lost a decision under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) for <nali.life>, and the case holds a basic but important lesson that I often tell my clients: Filing a complaint under the UDRP is not a simple task of filling in the blanks.

In this case study video, I discuss a domain name dispute filed by President Barack Obama's foundation under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). As I explain in the video, the case involved seven domain names, each of which contained the “Obama” name plus the words “presidential center” or “presidential library.” The UDRP panel ordered all of the domain names transferred to the Barack Obama Foundation.

I love hearing stories about how well-known entrepreneurs obtained their domain names, and a recent podcast about Lynda Weinman — and her <lynda.com> domain name — is a perfect example.

In this interview, Doug Isenberg of GigaLaw talks about the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with Lenka Náhlovská, secretary general of the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC).

In this case study video, Doug Isenberg of GigaLaw discusses how Columbia University filed and won a complaint for the domain name <columbia-university.com> under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).

In this case study video about the domain name <ibmhistory.com>, I explain that although most decisions under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) are in English, English is not the default language for all UDRP cases.

In this case study video, I discuss the largest case so far in 2021 under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), which was filed by The Clorox Company and involved 367 domain names.