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- Expert Witness - someone who by their experience can
offer an opinion on a matter before the court. He or she should
be able to present highly technical matters in language which
can be easily understood by non experts. The expert must be able
to justify his or her professional opinion under cross examination.
- Joint Expert - an expert acting for both the Claimant
and Defendant
- Claimant (formerly Plaintiff) - The person or organisation
initiating the action
- Defendant - The person or organisation defending themselves
against the Claimant
- Domain Name - the address for a web site e.g. www.cravenplan.co.uk
- broken down into at least two levels (separated by "."
- the top level domain is the last part of the domain name e.g.
.co.uk (a UK based commercial organisation) the previous level
is usually used to denote the company or organisation. The www
stands for "World Wide Web".
- Keywords - Words (and phrases) used in conjunction with
Search Engines and Directories to find information on the Internet.
It is a popular misconception that keywords are found only from
the meta tags at the top of each web page. In fact most Search
Engines now ignore these due to frequent abuse. Every word on
the page is a potential keyword.
- Cybersquatting - the practise of purchasing a domain
name which could be expected to be required by another organisation.
These are then typically offered at an inflated price to that
organisation. Limited protection is available via trademarks.
There is generally no protection against a person or individual
purchasing a generic domain name e.g. english-weddings.co.uk |
more info on Domain name disputes
- Meta Tags - a section at the top of most web pages. Used
amongst other things to provide a description and/or keywords
to Search Engines and Directories. Now largely ignored due to
frequent abuse (such as keyword stuffing).
- Keyword Stuffing - also known as Spamming (after the
Monty Python sketch). The practise of repeating words or phrases
excessively in order to try to gain an advantage with Search Engines.
Likely to be counter productive (most Search Engines penalise
this practise heavily).
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