Tag Archives: Reverse domain name hijacking

Tue 3rd December 2013
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Square Grouper Tiki Bar guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Florida bar filed UDRP despite knowing domain name wasn’t registered in bad faith. Castaways Bar, LLC , owner of Square Grouper Tiki Bar in Jupiter, Florida, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by filing a UDRP against SquareGrouper.com. When the company opened its bar in 2003, SquareGrouper.com was already registered. The registrant apparently was working on a screenplay by the name Square Grouper, and had already registered a “treatment” ... read more ...
Thu 14th November 2013
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Timbermate Products guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Company never alleged domain was registered in bad faith…just use in bad faith. Timbermate Products Pty Ltd of Nunawading, Australia, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by a World Intellectual Property Organization panel. The company, which uses the domain name timbermate.com.au, filed a UDRP against the domain name timbermate.com. The owner of Timbermate.com was, at one point, a distributor for Timbermate in the United States. After the distributorship ... read more ...
Wed 25th September 2013
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JetGo guilty of RDNH after filing “seriously misleading” box opposite Frank Schilling - Australian charter jet company didn’t give the full story to WIPO panel. Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has successfully defended another UDRP filed against one of its domain names. The three person UDRP panel also found the complainant guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. JetGo Australia, an airplane charter company, filed the complaint over the domain name JetGo.com. This is a classic case of a company adopting a company name in which the .com was ... read more ...
Thu 12th September 2013
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Indian wiring tradesman Croma guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Croma went after a domain registered a decade before its existence. Infiniti Retail Ltd., a TaTa company that runs the Indian electronics chain Croma, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company, which operates at CromaRetail.com, filed a UDRP to get the domain name Croma.com. It didn’t start using the Croma brand until 2006, which is a full decade after the owner of Croma.com registered the domain name. Croma.com had been in use to promote ... read more ...
Mon 2nd September 2013
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Owner of Corediagnostics.in Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - M/s. Core Diagnostics filed UDRP against domain name registered a decade before it was founded. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Richard Hill has found M/s. Core Diagnostics, owner of CoreDiagnostics.in, guilty of attempting reverse domain name hijacking. The Indian company started its business in 2011 and registered its trademarks in 2012. Still, it filed a UDRP against the owner of corediagnostics.com, who registered the domain name in 2001. The ... read more ...
Mon 19th August 2013
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Land Rover found guilty of RDNH in sardonic cybersquatting decision - Panelist rips apart Land Rover. Land Rover has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP case it brought against a Montana dealer of old school Land Rovers that uses the domain MountainRovers.com. This is despite the car dealer not responding to the UDRP. Even more noteworthy is the scathing critique panelist Houston Putnam Lowry had for Land Rover. Lowry determined that Land Rover didn’t meet any of the three necessary requirements to win a ... read more ...
Wed 19th June 2013
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RDNH alert: Duplicitous exchange doom Digilove domain dispute - Electronic dance website guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after engaging in “duplicitous dealings”. I have to admit, I don’t expect much business or legal sense from a company that uses the domain name digi10ve.com for a site it calls “Digilove”… Ryan P. Boggs of the site Digi10ve.com filed a seven-sentence UDRP pleading with WIPO to try to wrestle the domain name Digilove.com away from Frank Schilling. The case was filed with the help of attorney ... read more ...
Fri 29th March 2013
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Introducing RDNH.com: a database of retreat domain name hijacking cases - 129 reverse domain name hijacking cases and counting… Today I’d like to introduce you to RDNH.com, a site that provides a database of reverse domain name hijacking cases under UDRP. The site is a “collaboration” between myself, Nat Cohen, and David Lahoti. I say “collaboration” because Nat has been doing most (all) of the work and David’s UDRPSearch.com has been a key data source. As for me, my only collaboration on the project is lending the RDNH.com ... read more ...
Thu 28th March 2013
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California male guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Sorry, you can’t just take a domain because you have a business plan for it. A California man starting a business called Joopa has been found guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking. Edward Smith attempted to purchase the domain name Joopa.com for a new business (which is currently online at Joopa.tv). He first offered $500, and then upped his offer to $2,600. The domain owner wanted much more. According to the domain owner, it was after Smith was originally ... read more ...
Wed 20th February 2013
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ECommerce association Eyemagine found guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Company claimed rights to domain registered in 1996, well before it started using the name as a brand. Irvine, California eCommerce technology company Eyemagine Technology LLC has been found by the World Intellectual Property Organization to be guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company, which says it started using the Eyemagine brand in 2003, filed the complaint against a construction company that registered the domain eyemagine.com way back in 1996. The ... read more ...
Mon 21st January 2013
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Two cases uncover a craziness of RDNH - Two cases, three different view of reverse domain name hijacking. Two recent UDRP cases show the inconsistency of how reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH) is applied. In the first case, Intelligentsia Coffee Tea, Inc. v. Ashantiplc Ltd, the panel found against the complainant in a dispute over Intelligentsia.com. In this decision, two of the three panelists said it is the Respondent’s job to prove RDNH. The majority write: A majority of the Panel notes that Complainant ... read more ...
Fri 9th November 2012
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Tarheel Take-Out guilty of retreat domain name hijacking over Takeout.com - Food delivery service guilty of abusing proceedings. When Tarheel Take-Out, LLC filed a UDRP against the domain name Takeout.com, it was a pretty good bet that it would be found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. A three member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has just turned in its decision and has indeed determined that Tarheel Take-Out is guilty of abusing the UDRP process. The panel ruled that the domain name was not similar to a mark in which ... read more ...
Mon 1st October 2012
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Top 5 domain name stories of Sep 2012 - Patents, the Go Daddy outage, and the French. Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire last month, ranked based on page views. Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website” – Go Daddy got a patent on a way to announce your latest domain name registration on a social networking web site, such as Twitter. (And this post got a lot of traffic from Hacker News.) On day of iPhone 5 announcement, iPhone5.com sits dark – despite ... read more ...
Mon 17th September 2012
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City of Paris systematic to compensate $100k for retreat domain name hijacking - Paris guilty of reverse domain name hijacking, ordered to pay over $100,000. A U.S. federal district court has ordered Ville de Paris (City of Paris) to pay $100,000 for reverse domain name hijacking and tortious interference. Judge Melinda Harmon also ordered the city to pay $26,830 in attorney’s fees and costs. The judgment stems from a UDRP the city of Paris filed against the owner of Parvi.org in 2009. In that case, panelist Andrew Christie decided to give ... read more ...
 
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WallStreet.com: row manners retreat domain name hijacking - Wall-Street.com blasted for its attempt to hijack WallStreet.com domain name. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Wall-Street.com, LLC guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name WallStreet.com. Wall-Street.com based much of its UDRP case against WallStreet.com on some relatively recent transfers of the domain name, which it said were new registrations. However, it turns out the domain name has essentially been ... read more ...
Fri 3rd August 2012
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Nat Cohen wins retreat domain name hijacking assign opposite sauna for SHA.com - Spanish spa and wellness center brought UDRP in bad faith. Nat Cohen’s Telepathy has successfully defended the domain name Sha.com from an attack by Albir Hills Resort, S.A., known as SHA Wellness Clinic. The panel also determined that SHA Wellness Clinic was guilty of attempting reverse domain name hijacking. I’ve got to say, this was a no brainer for the three person panel. First, SHA’s attorney said the resort had been “operating in the market for 15 years”. ... read more ...
Fri 13th July 2012
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Default settlement released opposite Paris in domain fight, indemnification conference on tap - Paris may face damages in reverse domain name hijacking case. A Texas district court has filed an entry of default against Ville de Paris in a domain name squabble. The case involves Parvi.org. The city of Paris won a UDRP case for the domain name in 2009. When Paris filed the complaint it agreed to jurisdiction in Texas for matters stemming from the dispute. Domain owner Jeffrey Walter took advantage of the jurisdiction, filing a lawsuit against Paris in U.S. District ... read more ...
Thu 5th July 2012
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Wow: check out this panelist’s sardonic anticipating of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Panelist goes the extra mile in explanation of reverse domain name hijacking. UDRP panelists are usually reluctant to affirm that a complainant attempted reverse domain name hijacking. But in some cases the facts are so damning that the panelist goes the extra mile to explain why the case is so egregious. This usually happens when the panelist believes he or she was lied to. That’s the case with Houston Putnam Lowry’s decision for MamaMayI.com. The case was brought ... read more ...
Wed 9th May 2012
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“If we don’t sell me your domain for $2,000, I’ll record a UDRP” - Company that makes UDRP threat found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. “If you don’t sell me your domain for $2,000, I’ll file a UDRP against the domain name.” That’s effectively what a United Kingdom company threatened against the owner of the domain name edgePOS.com, according to the findings of a recent UDRP decision. John Henderson (Holdings) filed a UDRP complaint against Xiaodong Zhang of Austin, Texas, over the domain name. Zhang said he registered ... read more ...
Mon 30th April 2012
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This could have been retreat domain hijacking had a domain owners responded… - Your comadre wouldn’t approve. The National Arbitration Forum has found against Texas company Comadre Commerce, LLC in arbitration over the domain name Comadre.com. This is despite the owner of the domain name not responding. Had the owner responded, this case could have been an easy case of reverse domain name hijacking. First things first, comadre is a generic term meaning “godmother” in Spanish. Second, Comadre Commerce said it had a trademark registration ... read more ...
Thu 8th December 2011
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Frank Schilling and John Berryhill group adult to get RDNH decision - Company files dispute for UDRP in bad faith. Frank Schilling, with the help of attorney John Berryhill, has convinced a UDRP panel that AINS, INC is guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over eCase.com. AINS, Inc has a trademark for “ecase” for its software for workflow and case management. It claimed a first use in commerce date of 2009 on its trademark application. Schilling acquired the domain name eCase.com in 2002, so the case had no chance ... read more ...
Thu 14th July 2011
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Law Firm Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking After Filing “Astonishing” Case - Law firm files “baseless” case to get four letter domain name. I really hope a new law firm that seeks to “break with routine thinking in the legal industry” doesn’t have an intellectual property practice. Denmark lawfirm IUNO Advokatpartnerselskab has lost a UDRP for the IUNO.com and has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The domain name was registered in 2000; the law firm just opened its doors this year. Panelist Tony Willoughby had ... read more ...
Mon 14th February 2011
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Scott Day’s DigiMedia Wins Reverse Domain Hijacking Charge - WIPO panel finds complaint against DigiMedia.com was brought in bad faith. Legendary domain name investor Scott Day’s company DigiMedia.com has won a charge of reverse domain name hijacking against a Dubai company. Prime Pictures LLC filed the case in an attempt to get the domain name CinemaCity.com. But DigiMedia.com had registered the domain name way back in 1998, about 7 years before the complainant used “CinemaCity” in commerce. That clearly means the ... read more ...
Wed 22nd December 2010
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Minnesota Company Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - 3DCafe, Inc. found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. A three person National Arbitration Forum panel has called out 3DCafe, Inc. for attempted reverse domain name hijacking in a case over 3DCafe.com. The complainant argued that it had rights from its “predecessor in interest” for the term 3DCafe dating back to 1991. But the domain name owner, with the help of attorney Ari Goldberger, poked holes in the complainant’s arguments. The panel determined that ... read more ...
Fri 17th December 2010
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California ISP Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - ISP tries to get domain name registered many years before it even existed. A World Intellectual Property Forum panel has found California internet service provider Webpass, Inc guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to get the domain name WebPass.com. The ISP uses Web-Pass.com as its web page. Webpass, Inc. didn’t start using the Web Pass name until 2007, but the current registrant of WebPass.com registered the domain name in 2001. As such, it’s ... read more ...