The Domain Name Hustle Is About to Get Way More Intense

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows companies to trademark generic URLs could change how the web works

Ephrat Livni
OneZero
Published in
6 min readJul 15, 2020

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Imagine if a brand could monopolize the commonplace word that describes its wares, like if Apple could trademark “computers” and sue competing manufacturers who use the term.

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Ephrat Livni
OneZero

Writer. Lawyer. SCOTUS noter. Ex-appellate defender. Ex-QZ senior reporter, law and politics, DC.