Google Loses Domain Name Dispute

Just heard from the National Arbitration Forum that my clients won a great domain name dispute over GROOVLE.COM. Google had complained that my clients were "cybersquatters". The unanimous three distinguished three member panel disagreed. You can read the decision here.

Congrats to Groovle.com! This was one of those rare UDRP cases where the Panel didn't even have to consider the second and third prongs of the three-part UDRP test (legitimate interest and good faith registration and use). The Panel deserves a lot of credit here for being decisive in its appreciation for the substantial difference between Google and Groovle. As a UDRP lawyer, I can say that this was a real groovy case, and only the second case that Google ever lost; the first one was Froogle.com...

Getting Court Orders To Reveal ID's

Yet another case of someone going to court to get the ID's of anonymous emailers/bloggers/posters. I was interviewed on CBC's The National on one of these cases.

This is starting to be a regular occurance...

It may start happening so much that Google establishes its own "court system"...all online...

Would be like an ICANN arbitration  over a domain name dispute at the National Arbitration Forum or WIPO. I think it would work and would save them a lot of money and headache by avoiding going to court in many cases...

Domain name lawyers are used to this kind of arbitration for online legal issues, and I could see how a domain name attorney could easily adapt to this kind of Internet law case.