Bio

Zak currently serves as General Counsel to the Internet Commerce Association in addition to his private practice. Zak has practiced international domain name law since 1999, for clients all over the world. Zak was lead counsel in numerous precedent-setting court cases such as the Toronto.com case (2000), wherein he successfully defended against the first attempt in Federal Court to obtain an interlocutory injunction against a domain name registrant. Among many notable decisions, Zak represented the registrant of Shoes.Biz in the first ''.biz'' Reverse Domain Name Hijacking case (2002). Zak represented the registrant in the first ever successful defence of a CIRA Complaint over the domain name, Cheaptickets.ca (2003). Zak represented the registrant in the first CIRA Reverse Domain Name Hijacking finding and costs order in the Forsale.ca case (2009). Zak represented the respondent in the first case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in an IDN (Chinese language) domain name dispute over ''LongRiver.com'', a complaint brought by Hong Kong billionaire Le Ka Shing. Zak has succeeded in winning cases both for and against some of the largest corporations in the world, including Google, three times, such as in the Groovle.com case. In addition to Domain Name recover and domain name disputes, Zak has represented numerous buyers and sellers of domain names and websites, with values ranging from several thousand dollars, to over ten million. Zak represents website owners involved in many Internet related industries, such as online advertising, online marketing, ecommerce, website development, online education, online brokerages and escrow services, and online real estate services. The Muscovitch Law Firm has expertise in structuring transactions for online businesses involving venture capital and fundraising, crowdsourcing, joint ventures, partnerships, and for corporations large and small.