Category: domain name

Supreme Court rules generic website names can be trademarked

Post author By Randall
Post date July 1, 2020
Categories In booking, booking.com, domain name, domainname, gear, Internet, News, poltitics, scotus, supreme court, supremecourt, Tech, trademark, us patent and trademark office, uspatentandtrademarkoffice, uspto

[ad_1] The USPTO, among others, suggested that allowing Booking.com to claim the trademark would harm other travel companies with the word “booking” in their domain names. Federal trademark law defines generic terms as those that don’t make a service or product distinct from other ones. It prevents companies from staking an exclusive claim to commonly […]

New York orders Craigslist to remove ads for fake COVID-19 treatments

Post author By Randall
Post date March 20, 2020
Categories In attorney general, coronavirus, covid-19, craigslist, domain, domain name, fake, gear, godaddy, health, Internet, medicine, New York, Politics, registrar, Scam, Tech, web

[ad_1] On top of this, James has sent letters to GoDaddy and five other internet registrars asking them to halt the registration of domain names for virus-related scams, and to delist those names that are already in use. While this wasn’t an order, the Attorney General warned that these sites are likely to be violating […]