Tag Archives: andrew christie

Mon 25th November 2013
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Gold Coast Tourism Corporation guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Tourism group guilty of trying to hijack domain name from Digimedia. Gold Coast Tourism Corporation Ltd. has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP over the domain name GoldCoast.com. The case was filed against Digimedia, which was represented by John Berryhill. The complainant, a non-profit that promotes the Gold Cost in Australia, uses the domain name at visitgoldcoast.com. Gold Coast Tourism alleged that Digimedia asked $1 million for the ... read more ...
Wed 12th June 2013
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Yu have one engaging UDRP… - The case for Yu.com was much more complicated than it should have been. All the facts of the UDRP for Yu.com point to an slam dunk, open-and-shut victory for the respondent. Yet getting to that determination – a win for the respondent – was apparently anything but simple. Michael has opined a bit on the case, and I’m going to share my analysis. First, let’s discuss how this was a dead-on-arrival case. The complainant, Two Way NV/SA, stated that it had plans ... read more ...
Thu 19th July 2012
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Brothel beats Victoria’s Secret in titillating domain name dispute - …and it’s seriously a fascinating UDRP case. An Australian brothel has rebuffed an attempt by lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret to take its domain name VictoriasSecrets.com.au. The decision was handed down on a couple weeks ago and a Domain Name Wire reader just brought the case to my attention. The subject matter certainly makes for an interesting story, but the story goes much deeper than that. Let’s get the fun stuff out of the way: the respondent sent ... read more ...
Tue 7th September 2010
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UDRP Panelists Still Can’t Agree on Decisions - Drug company loses dispute, but panelists disagree over key point. A recent UDRP brought by drug giant Sanofi-aventis is interesting on a couple counts. First, the company lost the case over the domain name ferrlecit.com. The respondent is a former licensee of Sanofi-aventis. It registered the domain name while it was a licensee. So it was registered in good faith. But when the drug company and licensee terminated their relationship through arbitration, there ... read more ...
Mon 30th November 2009
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Paris Wins Parvi.org in Disturbing Domain Name Arbitration Decision - Paris wins domain as arbitrator throws out “registration AND use” in bad faith. In September I wrote about the city of Paris, France filing a UDRP against three domain names: WifiParis.com, Wifi-Paris.com, and Parvi.org. Paris was just handed a victory in the Parvi.org case; the other two cases are pending. What’s disturbing about the Parvi.org case is that the panel found that the domain name was likely not registered in bad faith, but still handed the domain ... read more ...