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DOMAIN NAME ARBITRATION BOOK

SOON TO BE PUBLISHED

New York, NY --- Domain Name Arbitration: Asserting and Defending Claims of Cybersquatting Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy by Gerald M. Levine, Esq. with a Foreword by Hon. Neil A. Brown QC, will soon be published by Legal Corner Press, LLC (New York) (565 pages). The print book will be followed shortly by an e-book edition with internal and external hyperlinks. Domain Name Arbitration is a definitive guide and practical go-to-book for attorneys, business professionals and pro se complainants and respondents in cybersquatting cases commenced pursuant to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).

Two major steps were taken in 1999 to address the unlawful conduct of cybersquatting. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) implemented the UDRP and the United States Congress passed and President Clinton signed the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). The regimes have different proof requirements but share a common mission of combating cybersquatting.

Between 2000 when the first domain name case was decided under the UDRP and 2014 there have been over 45,000 decided cases, approximately 3,500 to 4,000 decisions annually. Uniquely, parties never confront each other in person as they do in a court of law. Everything is done online. Parties submit complaints and answers in writing together with documentary proof. Within 45 days of filing the complaint decisions are posted online where they are publicly available on databases maintained by the arbitration service providers certified by ICANN to adjudicate claims of cybersquatting. From these decisions has emerged a unique body of domain name law.

One of the several truths that can be drawn from the collective wisdom of panelists who decide UDRP cases is that parties too often fail to understand the evidentiary demands they must satisfy to succeed. Domain Name Arbitration is the most comprehensive and in-depth work on the jurisprudence of domain names. It fully describes and illustrates, with case law, the procedural process and proof elements required of the parties. In addition, it thoroughly explores the substantive law governing registration and use of domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to trademarks. The book provides an analytic description of the process and a step-by-step examination of the evidentiary elements parties must satisfy to establish the merits of a claim or defense of infringement.

As the Honorable Neil A. Brown, Queens Counsel in Melbourne writes in the book’s Foreword, “Domain Name Arbitration puts flesh on the bones by illustrating how jurisprudence crafted by panelists makes UDRP a living and working dispute resolution regime. It is an essential reference work for everyone involved in a domain name adjudication. It should certainly be on the desk, or on the computer, of every activist in the domain name world, every practitioner and everyone else that works in the field…It promises to be the Grey’s Anatomy of domain name arbitration.”

Author Gerald M. Levine is an attorney practicing in New York City. He began his career with a major New York law firm before founding his own firm in 1992. He has a litigation and counseling practice and represents clients on a diverse range of legal and business matters from real property and commercial disputes to protection of intellectual property rights. He is on the panel of neutral arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association and a mediator for the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court, New York County; and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He has published numerous articles on real estate, arbitration, trademark and cybersquatting. Mr. Levine earned a Ph.D. from New York University and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.

Domain Name Arbitration will be available from Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com and other online book distributors.


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