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WIPO Rules in Favor of Glenn Beck Parody Site

11.06.09

by Chloe Albanesius

An intellectual property organization has denied a request by Glenn Beck to take down a Web site with a domain name that the talk show host claimed improperly used his name and defamed his name.

An arbitration panel for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), an agency within the United Nations, found that Isaac Eiland-Hall registered the URL glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com as a political statement and not as a bad faith effort to profit from Beck's name.

Eiland-Hall "appears to the panel to be engaged in a parody of the style or methodology that [Eiland-Hall] appears genuinely to believe is employed by [Beck] in the provision of political commentary, and for that reason [Eiland-Hall] can be said to be making a political statement."

In a Friday letter to Beck, Eiland-Hall said he pursued the case simply as a means to "help preserve the First Amendment" and provided Beck with the username and password to his site so that Beck could remove it at his discretion.

The Web site was still live early Friday afternoon, but as of 4:30pm Eastern time, it appeared to be down.

A spokesman for Beck declined comment.

Eiland-Hall states on his Web site that Beck did not in fact rape and murder a girl in 1990, and that the URL is referencing an Internet meme as a means to poke fun at Beck's style as a talk show host.

Eiland-Hall pointed to Beck's>>>

FreeCreditReport.com Wins 1,017 Domains in Single Arbitration

Friday, November 13th, 2009

In what may set a record for most domains subject to a single domain name arbitration, the parent company of FreeCreditReport.com has won the transfer of 1,017 domain names registered by California-based NetCorp.

The domain names are mostly typos of the company’s FreeCreditReport.com web site, which is widely advertised as a free credit check service. Examples include fareecreditreport.com, freecmeditreport.com, and freecqeditreport.com.

NetCorp argued that FreeCreditReport.com is merely descriptive, and that the company did not have trademark rights at the time it registered the domain names. The panel didn’t buy it.

This case could be a big win for anti-typosquatting >>>

D&D Consulting will pay $10K for referral of winning bidder in domain name auction

Friday, November 13, 2009, 2:30pm EST

D&D Consulting Ltd. is offering a $10,000 finder’s fee to anyone who refers the individual who buys the Albany, N.Y., company’s Internet domain, Disaster.com.

The silent auction started Oct. 22 with a minimum asking bid of $850,000. It’s expected to conclude on Nov. 20.

The IT consulting company registered Disaster.com in 1994.

The sale has generated a lot of interest, but attracted a limited number of bidders so far, said Gavin Cooper, D&D’s marketing manager.

“We attribute this to auction buying behavior,” >>>

Weekly Domain Sales Report...

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. There were no blockbusters this week but Sedo rang up a bucket load of solid five-figure sales to sweep the first 8 spots on our new Top 20 Chart. They also placed eight ccTLDs on the all extension leader board including a trio that ranked among the five biggest sales. You can get all of the details here: http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

Also new at DN Journal is our comprehensive review of the 2009 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference that closed October 29^th. This report includes dozens of previously unreleased photos and conference details that we did not have time to delve into in the daily highlights we posted from New York while the event was underway. This show marked the end of an era as conference co-founders Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu have now turned the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. reins over to Rick Latona. Read all about it and see photos of all of the 2009 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Industry Awards winners here: http://www.dnjournal.com/events/2009/traffic-newyork-2009-review.htm

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Carriers Eye Pay-As-You-Go Internet

• OCTOBER 21, 2009

By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS And NIRAJ SHETH

( See Correction & Amplification below. )

In the early years of the Internet, the more time people spent online, the more they paid a provider like AOL for their connection. But as customers have shifted to always-on broadband services, many Web surfers have enjoyed all-you-can-eat Internet for a flat rate.

Some cable and telecommunications providers are trying to turn back the clock and return to usage-based pricing for Internet connections. Carriers including AT&T Inc. and Time Warner Cable Inc. say they may have to switch amid a surge in Internet traffic as more people go online to watch videos and download movies.

Recent efforts to introduce usage-based, or metered, broadband services have met stiff resistance from consumers. But a new push by the federal government to adopt rules that would force Internet providers to treat all Web traffic equally, no matter how much bandwidth they take up, could give ammunition to the broadband providers that want to change how they charge for Web access, Internet experts and consumer advocates say.

"This could come down to carriers saying, 'If you don't allow us to manage our networks the way we see fit, then we will just have to cap everything,' " says Phillip Dampier, a consumer advocate focusing on technology issues in Rochester, N.Y. "They'll make it an either/or thing: give them more control over their network or expect metered broadband."

Mr. Dampier was among those who forced>>>