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Man sues eNom after domain (not in his name) is transferred to someone else. One of the costs of doing business as a domain registrar is the inevitable lawsuits. Most of these are trademark suits where the plaintiff includes the registrar of a domain name as an defendant. But some of them are more interesting, such as a suit against eNom for allegedly failing to implement appropriate domain transfer safeguards. Plaintiff William Georgevich claims he bought the domain name Detox.org fr

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2008/08/domainer_loses_1.htm Eric Goldman, Assistant Professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law and Director of the school’s High-Tech Law Institute, made a post about domain lawsuits on his blog yesterday. The post, which I linked to above, outlines the recent rulings in the lawsuit of Verizon California vs. Navigation Catalyst Systems. He writes: This is an extremely interesting and potentially precedent-setting case regarding domaining and

James Grimmelmann, The Google Dilemma (July, 15 2008), New York Law School Law Review, Forthcoming, SSRN link. On the legal and political questions raised by search results. Quote:Google isn’t the only one facing the Google Dilemma. Lawyers, judges, and legislators deal with it, too. There have been dozens of lawsuits against search engines; each of those lawsuits requires the court hearing it to confront the Dilemma. In order to say that a search engine did something wrong, there must be a plau