All Posts Tagged With: "Domain Law"

For all of you active domainers out there that try to keep an eye on the industry, you’ve probably been spammed with blog posts and even e-mails recently regarding the Snowe bill, which is a bill that could have very negative implications on domainers world-wide.   Basically this bill, if passed, would give businesses with trademarks more access to domains than they currently have, costing many domainers thousands if not millions of dollars in losses due to being forced to turn over their domains.

The Snowe bill is obviously the biggest threat to our industry, but there are several things that a domainer needs to be conscious of in general when determining whether to invest into a particular domain name.   Over the past decade, there has been a lot of presidence established that helps guide internet law and provides you with general guidelines to follow.  

If you are interested in doing what you can to protect your investment, you first need to understand how things work from a legal perspective.  Domain Bits has taken the time to collect a bunch of things you need to know when it comes to Domain Law.   Here are the subjects covered:

1. The Contract Rules
2. Your Domain Can Be Shut Down
3. No Such Thing As Domain Ownership
4. US Law Overreaches International Boundaries
5. Generics Can Be Trademarks
6. Registrars Will Park Your Domains
7. Record Keeping
8. Private Whois
9. Accurate Whois
10. Front Running
11. Hijacking
12. Most Registrars Aren’t Helpful
13. Not Much Legal Protection

Click over to get full explanations of each option and make sure you are doing whatever you can to protect your investments!