Although companies’ marketing departments likely are all over this issue, it won’t hurt their human resources directors to ponder what might happen if a few of their disgruntled former employees gets their hands on this new top level domain name.

Our colleagues at Porter Wright’s Technology Law Source blog have watched the launch of hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) through the past several months. Introduced to increase competition in the domain name market and enhance the Internet’s stability and security, these new gTLDs are projected to change the face of the Internet and how we use it. Today, they share an article that should be of interest to anyone with a recognizable brand: The .sucks gTLD has entered its sunrise period. What does that mean? If unclaimed, brand owners could wake up to a full-fledged — and completely legal — gripe site come September. Read more