Artificial intelligence is one of the most talked-about and controversial topics these days, so it’s no surprise that it’s having an impact on domain names and domain name disputes. This video focuses in particular on the dot-ai top-level domain, which is seeing an increase in both registrations and disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).

The nine-year increase in domain name disputes being filed by trademark owners shows no slowdown in the first quarter of 2023, with the number of reported decisions up more than 18 percent under the UDRP, the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.

Cybersquatters sometimes use domain names that look like trademarks -- for example, by using two letter v's in place of the letter w; the letters r and n instead of the letter m; or the number 0 instead of the letter o. In this video, attorney Doug Isenberg discusses three recent cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) in which trademark owners filed -- and won -- complaints for these so-called homoglyphs, or lookalike domain names.

“Cocaine Bear” is not just the title of a 2023 movie — it’s also a domain name dispute. A company that apparently operates a mall in Kentucky featuring (maybe) the bear on which the movie is based filed — and lost — a complaint under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) for the domain name <cocainebear.com>.

Nestle, the food and drink company, won a domain name dispute for nes.cafe, by relying on a seldom-used but important concept known as “spanning the dot.” Although the top-level domain is usually disregarded in cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), the panel in this case said that "it may be appropriate to 'span the dot' and consider the TLD" because the disputed domain name nes.cafe -- "considered in its entirety" -- is confusingly similar to the NESCAFE trademark.

Barclays Bank — the multinational banking and financial services company with 48 million customers — filed a complaint under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) against a domain name registrant identified as “Barclays Bank.”

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio failed to renew his domain name <leonardodicaprio.org>, but he was able to recover it by filing a complaint under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). In a new video, I discuss what happened in the case and what lessons other trademark owners can learn from DiCaprio's mistake.

As the data in the newest issue (Q4 2022) of GigaLaw’s Domain Dispute Digest makes abundantly clear: Domain name disputes continue to surge, with more trademark owners filing complaints under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) in 2022 than ever before.

In a decision under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), a trademark owner lost its case because the dispute was really about an email address that contained its trademark -- not a domain name. Although the panel recognized that the respondent was using the domain name in connection with what it called a "fraudulent enterprise," it said that the domain name "neither looks nor sounds like" the trademark.

The number of domain name disputes hit a record-high for the ninth-consecutive year in 2022, based on an early look at data from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which is the largest provider for cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).