In a UDRP cyber squatting case, the panels will consider the date that you acquire the domain when looking at if you registered it in bad faith. Under the Anti-Cyber Squat and Consumer Protection Act, things are looked at differently. This is unsettled law even 20 plus years after this act was passed. The court of appeal split widened last month in a decision in the fourth circuit of appeals.
A recent court case does little to settle the “re-registration” question. A Court of Appeals decision last month widened the gulf between different U.S. circuits on a critical question in finding bad faith under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA): when the domain was registered. Or “re-registered”, as it were. On today’s show Ben Barlow, […]
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