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...Paul Danziger, a lawyer for Powered, said that the company would be willing to turn the notHarvard domain name over to the University on December 7. The delay is necessary, he says, to allow a suitable transition period for Powered...
NotHarvard sued the University on July 27 seeking an injunction to protect its domain name. The University responded by suing notHarvard several days later...
...University officials said that despite the fact that notHarvard no longer exists, Harvard will press on with its lawsuit against the company instead of waiting for Powered to turn over the domain name voluntarily...
...Legitimate organizations with persuasive claims to the word complain that the IOC is going too far. At issue is the question of who should oversee the world's Internet addresses, or domain names. The IOC is using a controversial new American law, the 1999 Anti-Cyber-Squatting Consumer Protection Act, in a highly aggressive way. The act allows organizations to gain control of misappropriated domain names in U.S. courtrooms - even if those addresses are owned by people outside the U.S. Critics object that .com, .net and .org are global domain names, and thus U.S. courts should have no jurisdiction over...
...What WIPO and ICANN act against are bad faith, where domain names are bought simply to sell on to organisations which own a trademarked name. And in many of the Olympics-related cases, the company registering the Web address fully intended to use it for appropriate commercial purposes. "This is a classic example of the net running faster than the people on the ground," said Jonathan Robinson, CEO of NetBenefit, probably Europe's largest domain name registration company. A staunch defender of trademarks on the Internet, Robinson has some sympathy for the IOC's plight but he believes that they...