The current state of domain name regulation : domain names as second-class citizens in a mark-dominated world / Konstantinos Komaitis.
2010
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Title
The current state of domain name regulation : domain names as second-class citizens in a mark-dominated world / Konstantinos Komaitis.
Published
London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2010.
Call Number
K1569 .K66 2010
ISBN
9780415477765 (hardbound)
041547776X (hardbound)
9780203849583 (e-book)
0203849582 (e-book)
041547776X (hardbound)
9780203849583 (e-book)
0203849582 (e-book)
Description
xxviii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)422754407
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [236]-256) and index.
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Table of Contents
Table of legislation
xii
Table of cases
xiv
Preface
xxiv
Selected acronyms
xxvii
1.
Introduction: taking on the sins of ICANN and the UDRP
1
1.1.
Problematising domain name disputes
3
1.2.
The research issue
5
1.3.
Designing the hypothesis
6
1.4.
Goals and plan of the book
7
Part I Intellectual problem
9
2.
Contextualising property
11
2.1.
The place of property: where property law currently resides
14
2.2.
The political mapping of property
19
3.
Introducing trademarks
24
3.1.
Intellectual property and trademarks
25
3.2.
Defending trademarks
27
3.3.
The legal philosophy of trademarks
29
3.4.
The economic value of trademarks
31
3.5.
The political mapping of trademarks
35
4.
Domain names: their technological, socio-economic and legal status
39
4.1.
The technical nature of domain names: what's in a name?
41
4.2.
The socio-economic function of domain names
44
4.3.
Socio-economic norms in the domain name market
45
4.4.
Domain name legal theories
48
4.5.
Domain names as property
62
Part II Institutional problem
71
5.
History of domain name institutionalisation
73
5.1.
ICANN's authority to create the UDRP
76
5.2.
The road to the UDRP
79
5.3.
ICANN launches the UDRP
82
6.
'Lex domainia': the new lex mercatoria?
85
7.
The UDRP and arbitration
89
7.1.
Justification of arbitration and the scope of the New York Convention
89
7.2.
Arbitration and the UDRP: the face-off
91
8.
Issues of procedural unfairness
96
8.1.
The UDRP restricts the legal rights of registrants
96
8.2.
Issues of inconsistency in a uniform system
100
8.3.
Can courts conduct a sufficient review of the UDRP?
107
9.
Free speech in the context of the UDRP
113
10.
Regulating domain names nationally: the case of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
119
10.1.
The U.S. approach prior to the enactment of ACPA
121
10.2.
The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
125
10.3.
The rationale behind in rem jurisdiction
127
10.4.
ACPA and in rem: a dangerous combination
129
10.5.
ACPA v. international institutions
136
10.6.
The incompatible status of gTLDs and national legislation
139
11.
Applying the UDRP and ACPA in the right context
141
Part III Ethical problem
147
12.
'Haves' and 'have nots'
149
12.1.
Ethical concerns in the context of the UDRP
151
12.2.
The domain name πomicronλιfinalsigma
160
Part IV Themes and issues
167
13.
Forwards and backwards...
169
13.1.
Reconfiguring the regulation of domain names
172
13.2.
Procedural level
173
13.3.
Techno-legal level
180
13.4.
Political level
182
14.
Repeating the same mistakes: new gTLDs and the IRT recommendation report
185
14.1.
Injustice at a procedural level
187
14.2.
The report's substantive issues
189
14.3.
The taming of trademark protection
195
Notes
197
Bibliography
236
Index
257