Entertainment & Sports
Nov. 25, 2014
Ready or not, dot-sucks soon to hit Web
The Internet domain name registry is poised to approve an owner for dot-sucks, which trademark lawyers say could lead to dozens of infringement and defamation cases.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Move over dot-com, here comes dot-sucks. The Los Angeles-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, in late October auctioned off the dot-sucks top-level domain name. But the move seriously concerns trademark lawyers, who fear a world where retail giants are forced to buy walmart.sucks or target.sucks for exorbitant prices in order to head off copyright infringement, brand trashers or...
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