domain name. The words and characters that website owners designate for their registered Internet addresses. • All domain names have at least two levels. The first-level domain name identifies the registrant’s category as, e.g., a commercial site (.com), a governmental institution (.gov), an educational institution (.edu), a nonprofit group (.org), or a discussion group (.net). […]
Infringement of another’s trademark or servicemark by the use of a confusingly similar Internet domain name. [Cases: Trade Regulation 350.1. C.J.S. Trade-Marks, Trade-Names, and Unfair Competition § 119.]
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Administrative Domain-Name Challenge Panel. Trademarks. A board of experts convened under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization to decide Internet domain-name disputes. — Abbr. ACP.
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. A nonprofit corporation established in 1998 to assign and manage the system of Internet domain names and to allocate Internet-protocol (IP) address space. — Abbr. ICANN.
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.biz. Trademarks. A top-level domain name assigned by ICANN for use by businesses as distinct from individual, personal, or noncommercial use. See DOMAIN NAME; INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS.
framing. On the Internet, a website’s display of another entity’s webpage inside a bordered area, often without displaying the page’s URL or domain name. • Framing may constitute a derivative work and may infringe on a copyright or trademark if done without giving credit to or obtaining permission from the other website’s owner.
cybersquatting. The act of reserving a domain name on the Internet, esp. a name that would be associated with a company’s trademark, and then seeking to profit by selling or licensing the name to the company that has an interest in being identified with it. • The practice was banned by federal law in 1999.
cyberpiracy. Trademarks. The act of registering a well-known name or mark (or one that is confusingly similar) as a website’s domain name, usu. for the purpose of deriving revenue. • One form of cyberpiracy is cybersquatting. Another is using a similar name or mark to mislead consumers. For example, a site called Nikee.com that sold
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. Trademarks. A 1999 federal law authorizing a trademark owner to obtain a federal-court order transferring ownership of a domain name from a cybersquatter to the trademark owner. • A mark’s owner must show that (1) the mark and the domain name are identical or confusingly similar; (2) the mark was distinctive
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ACP challenge. Trademarks. An administrative procedure to settle disputes over Internet domain names, con-ducted by an Administrative Domain-Name Challenge Panel (ACP) under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization and in accordance with the WIPO (Revised) Substantive Guidelines. • The guidelines are viewable at http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/racps.htm.