Devinn Lane Files Suit Against Vivid, Digital Playground, Others

[RawAlex]

Liz, the key in the Madonna case is here:

The panel said Parisi, who is a Web site developer, had no trademark right to the name Madonna and failed to prove legitimate interest in the Internet domain name that he had registered in bad faith.

Is it bad faith to register pornstarname-xxx.com and direct traffic to a program that promotes this star?

Most of the cases (including the Madonna one) are specific for cybersquatters using the traffic for other purposes than promoting the star / product / etc. In many cases they offer to sell the domain to the trademark / copyright holder, which is a clear indication of bad faith.

Some of the domains in this lawsuit have been used in bad faith, other may not have. I think that this will be very telling about the future of domain names as a whole. Perhaps we should all just use IP addresses instead?