Domain Name Lawyers

Which Lawyers specialize in defending domain names and which ones specializes in retrieving domain names for TM holders?

@ John

I am farily certain all represent domain owners for some cases. Nevertheless, I provided links to each person’s website for your own due diligence. I do know that some also defend trademark holders as well.

That’s quite a strong list of domain savvy attorneys.

A couple of others that I have found to be knowledgeable and highly focused on domain related issues are:

Mike Rodenbaugh – of Rodenbaugh.com – based in California and does work nationally. He is on a panel at Domainer MardiGras this week. He earlier had been an “in house lawyer for Yahoo for many years. Highly familiar with the ways and means of ICANN too.

Clarke Walton – Las Vegas based IP/Trademark/Domain & Internet Law attorney who incidentally is quite a poker pro and runs a wesite or two in that arena…and has been quite a techie & SEO guru too..before becoming a lawyer

Nice list Elliot, I personally like Zak as I am in canada and John Berryhill for the US. Other great guys there I am sure but those two stand out for representing domainers in their respective countries, imo.

Excellent information to have BEFORE you need it. I appreciate the post.

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FYI

It seems Stevan Lieberman website is not running at this time.

If you need access to a good and FREE UDRP case research tool:

http://www.UDRPSearch.com

I’ve worked with Enrico on a few occasions, have had smooth experiences.

Excellent list Elliot. If anyone wonders why you should attend a domaining conference, this is it. I met Enrico Schaefer at my first TRAFFIC conference and he was great help to me after I received my first “Cease & Desist” letter. Without having networked with him over some high-end tequila at Disney World, I wouldn’t have had a clue what to do when I got the letter. I more than paid for that conference with the advice I got from him.

“It seems Stevan Lieberman website is not running at this time.”

When I saw your posting yesterday, I checked APLegal.com and it was opening. I assume his server was re-setting when you checked.

I also checked again today and it is opening.

Website is back up. Evidently we ran out of hard drive space for the official Gazette. Thank to everyone for saying nice things.

Stevan Lieberman

Great article, as always, Elliot.

To plus up the list, Derek Newman, Ryan Katz and Bret Faussett are also exceptional.

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The WIPO ruling on Hayward.com has been appealed in Court. The filing was done yesterday in California.

Mike Rodenbaugh is lead attorney for the plaintiff, domain registrant WebQuest.com, Inc … they got a bonifide chance, he’s good !

I must make a correction:

Brett Lewis is actually the lead attorney (NYC) on the Hayward.com Court case, Mike Rodenbaugh is the Califorbia-based attornet representing the Plaintiff’s case… Strong duo !

It should be interesting to follow

All I can say is, Mark Randazza is your man. He is, without a doubt, the underdog’s best friend, and an outstanding lawyer.
I say this, even though we actually lost my case at the Wipo level. It was NOT from his lack of work, or argument.

Anyone reading the case would agree we won. There is just little respect given to The US Constitution around the world.

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Thanks for the list, Elliot. I am going to contact a few of these lawyers this week to ask about SPAMMING.

Each day, I contact numerous end users and offer them domains that I feel could help their business. I get the feeling I may be SPAMMING and/or breaking the law by sending out emails (in bulk) to 50-100 companies per domain – even though the companies are carefully selected and completely relevant to the names I am selling. But “cold-calling” or sending unsolicitated “commercial” email I think is spamming – if so, I may have to stop domaining

To add to your list of domain name attorneys above, I recommend Maulin Shah of UDRPro.com. He has helped us recover numerous domain names.

@ Jared

What are some of these domain names? I’ve never heard of Mr. Shah that I can recall.