Tag Archives: UDRP

Mon 27th October 2014
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Turkish grill sequence guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Develi Restaurant chain guilty of abusing UDRP. A restaurant in Turkey has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name develi.com. The complainant runs a restaurant chain called Develi and uses the domain name DeveliKebap.com. A key problem for the complainant was that Develi is also the name of a city in Turkey. Although the complainant has trademarks including “Develi”, these are figurative marks as part of a drawing. In fact, when ... read more ...
Sun 26th October 2014
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Nat Cohen’s Telepathy Hit With UDRP On Three Letter .Com: SDT.com - Nat Cohen’s Telepathy was been Hit With UDRP On the domain name SDT.com The UDRP was filed by SDT International Limited Company Telepathy has owned the domain since at least 2007 according to Domaintools.com, however recently moved the domain name to the domain name registrar name.com from Moniker.com due to theft concerns which he wrote about on his blog. Many times you will see a UDRP filed after an ownership change and I wonder if some Corporate Counsel saw the change in domain registrars and ... read more ...
Fri 24th October 2014
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UDRP Filed To Recover Another Stolen 3 Letter .Com From Godaddy: CIN.com - A UDRP has been filed on a 3 letter .com and seems to be an attempt by the previous owner, CIN-CORPORACAO INDUSTRIAL DO NORTE, S.A. to recover the domain name CIN.com which appears to have recently stolen from CIN’s Godaddy account The domain name was owned by CIN-CORPORACAO until October 17th when it was transferred to Ename.com of China Here is the current whois record: Registrar: eName Technology Co.,Ltd. Registrar IANA ID: 1331 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@ename.com Registrar Abuse ... read more ...
Wed 22nd October 2014
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Houston We Have A Problem: 2 URS Examiners Can’t Agree If The Same Company Owns A Trademark - My man Raymond Hackney who writes posts for thedomains.com, as well as his own blog at tldinvestors.com, pointed out two diametrically opposed URS decisions filed by the same complainant Aeropostale Procurement Company, Inc. of New York, one of which concludes they own the trademark to the clothing line of Aeropostale and the other examiner finding they do not. In the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding on the domain name Aeropostale.Uno, decided on April 10th, 2014, the examiner Alan L. Limbury ... read more ...
Mon 20th October 2014
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If You Lie About Your Trademark, That Should Automatically Be Reverse Domain Hijacking - Eric Levy of New York just lost his attempt to grab the generic domain name yourneighborhood.com in a UDRP, based off a trademark for YOURNEIGHBORHOOD LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE, registered on December 10, 2013. The domain name YourNeighborhood.com was first registered on November 25, 1998 The one member panelist should have found Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) since he found the complainant lied about the trademark he held and though the case out immediately. While we commend the one member panel ... read more ...
Sun 19th October 2014
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Loser of WWE.Org UDRP Tells World Wrestling Entertainment He Is Not Happy - After losing a UDRP on the domain name WWE.org the owner of the domain has a message for the World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. who won the National Arbitration Forum decision, and its fair to say the domain holder is not too pleased. Although the decision was handed down on October 13th and today is October 18th,  the whois still shows the loser of the UDRP as the owner and he clearly has control of the server the domain resides on Here is the message from the loser of the UDRP to World Wrestling, ... read more ...
Wed 15th October 2014
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World Wrestling Entertainment Wins Control Of WWE.org - World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. just gained control of wwe.org. The domain name was parked and the domain owner just months after registering the domain name offered to sell the trademark holder the domain for $50,000 Here are the highlights from the one panel decision: Complainant has rights in the WWE mark through registrations with trademark agencies worldwide, including the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) (e.g., Reg. No 2,772,683 registered Oct. 7, 2003, filed May ... read more ...
 
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Grafitti artist Banksy final Banksy.com domain name - Agent files UDRP to get domain name. Famous grafitti artist Banksy has filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of Banksy.com. [Update: the filing may have been from an imposter.] The case was filed by Banksy Inc (C/O Pest Control Office Limited). Pest Control Office is essentially an agent and certification group for Banksy’s work. It is currently trying to get a U.S. trademark for Banksy. If you go to Banksy.com right now, you’ll find a site about ... read more ...
Fri 10th October 2014
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$1.25 million domain name Photo.com strike with UDRP - Case filed with World Intellectual Property Organization against Photo.com. The domain name Photo.com has been hit with a UDRP filing at World Intellectual Property Organization. According to a 2010 story at TheDomains, Moniker brokered the sale of this domain name back then for $1.25 million. The complainant is Fotocom Société Anonyme. I’m having trouble due to the language barrier, but it’s possible that this group is associated with the domain name Foto.com. ... read more ...
Tue 7th October 2014
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20 Year Old NUVO.Com Saved in A One Member Panel UDRP & Domain Holder Didn’t Respond - SiTV, Inc. of Glendale, California, just lost its bid to grab the domain name Nuvo.com in a UDRP. The one member panel decision of Michael A. Albert rejected the claim even though the domain holder, which is now a Bankruptcy Trustee, did not file a formal response. The opinion did not mention the registration date of the domain or any change in ownership. The domain name Nuvo.com has a original registration date of August 24, 1994 Here are the highlights: Complainant has a United States Patent and ... read more ...
Mon 6th October 2014
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Planet Fitness guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - …as the company wastes money with a reactive approach to intellectual property management. Planet Fitness, a chain of over 800 fitness clubs in the United States, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking for its attempt to get the domain name judgmentfree.com. This is despite the domain name owner not even responding to the dispute. Planet Fitness uses the slogan “Judgement Free Zone” for its gyms. I assume that means you won’t be judged for ... read more ...
Fri 3rd October 2014
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UDRP Filed on C-A.com and MySchool.com Gets Saved for a Second time - Back on 9/13 we wrote about MySchool.com getting hit with a UDRP for the second time in four years. We published the article as soon as the UDRP was filed, so we had no clue to who was filing the UDRP this time around. Well it was the same person as the first time, Joseph L. Carpenter. The first UDRP was brought against Andy Booth who owned the domain at the time. In July of 2012 the domain looks like it changed hands, left Go Daddy and moved to EuroDNS under privacy. In March of 2013 the name came ... read more ...
 
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Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Without Filing A Response: Judgmentfree.com - PFIP, LLC (“Complainant”), represented by Teresa C. Tucker of Grossman, Tucker, Perreault Pfleger PLLC, New Hampshire, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name hijacking in a UDRP decision on the domain name judgmentfree.com The one member panel of David E. Sorkin found RDNH even though the domain holder didn’t even file a response and therefore didn’t even ask for a RDNH finding. Here are the relevant facts and findings: “PFIP uses various marks in connection with this business, including ... read more ...
 
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$42,000 MySchool.com domain name survives UDRP - Complainant goes after domain name for a second time, and loses for the second time. Original Web Ventures has survived a UDRP that was filed against its MySchool.com domain name — a domain name it purchased last year for $42,000. The complainant, Joseph L. Carpenter, runs a site at MySchool411.com. He filed a UDRP against MySchool.com back in 2010 and lost that case. Now that the domain has changed hands, he took another crack at it. A three person National Arbitration ... read more ...
Wed 1st October 2014
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SimpleBank.com Lost in UDRP To Common Law Trademark Holder of The Word “Simple” - Simple Finance Technology Corp (“Complainant”), just won control of the domain name SimpleBank.com which is owned by CDN Properties Incorporated. Simple alleged that it had a common law trademark to the term “Simple” however the case seemed to turn on that the domain name in question SimpleBank.com which was first registered in 2003 is the reverse of the company’s website at BankSimple.com, the domain went to a parked page with links to other banks, and the domain holder could not proof ... read more ...
 
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UDRP On Tasers.com Is Dropped, As Domain Name Is Now Owed By Tasers International -                     A UDRP was filed on the domain name Tasers.com with WIPO, last month is showing as having been terminated. That means the Complainant of the UDRP, TASER International, Inc dropped the UDRP, however according to the whois record the domain name is now owned by JUSTIN CLARK,Esq, whose email address is JCLARKLAWFIRM.COM According to his Linked in page Mr. Clark is the Managing Attorney at J. Clark Law Firm, in Phoenix and was previously the in-house counsel to TASER International. So ... read more ...
Tue 30th September 2014
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TeleSign Corporation Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking As Esqwire.com Wins 11 In Row - TeleSign Corporation, of California was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name PhoneId.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc, which was represented as usual by Esqwire.com According to my records its the 11th win in row for Esqwire.com and the 5th finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. The three member panel of Paul M. DeCicco, Esq., Diane Thilly Cabell, Esq., and the Honorable Charles K. McCotter, Jr. (Ret.) found while the complainant owned the very recently ... read more ...
 
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Company pays $25k to solve lawsuit stemming from UDRP - Domain name owner that sued after losing UDRP settles for $25,000 (not including the domain). Companies that file long shot UDRPs with the hope of scoring a great domain name, take note. An Austin company has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against it after it initiated a UDRP case. And the company won its UDRP. Austin Pain Associates filed a UDRP against AustinPain.com, a domain owned by HugeDomains. I was surprised that the complainant won, and believe ... read more ...
Mon 29th September 2014
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Berryhill: “We’re Taking This to Court” As UDRP Rules Against Marchex’s Generic Banco24horas.com - Tecnologia Bancaria S.A. of São Paulo, Brazil, just was awarded the generic domain names banco24horas.com and banco24horas.net Banco is Spanish for the word Bank and of course, “24 horas” translated from spanish is “24 hours” so the domains transferred we’re “24 hour bank” in .com and .net Marchex Sales Inc. which was represented by John Berryhill lost three member panel decision by a majority, meaning that two panelist, Sebastian M.W. Hughes and Philippe Gilliéron voted to transfer ... read more ...
Fri 26th September 2014
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Iron Man Star; Actor Robert Downey Jr Files UDRP on The Domain RobertDowneyjr.actor - The star of the Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes movie series,  Robert Downey,  Jr has filed a UDRP on the new gTLD domain name RobertDowneyjr.actor. The domain was registered less than a month ago on August 31st by a Shashank Agarwal of India at Godaddy.com The domain name RobertDowneyjr.actor is going to a Godaddy placeholder. The actor does seem to own the domain name robertdowneyjr.com but the domain does not resolve. The domain name RobertDowney.actor is not registered. The official site of the ... read more ...
Thu 25th September 2014
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Spamhaus wins Spamhaus.com in UDRP, though it won’t get a domain right away - Domain name is part of Ondova portfolio tied up in courts. A UDRP panel has awarded anti-spam group The Spamhaus Project the domain name Spamhaus.com, but the group won’t be able to use the domain any time soon. The domain name is registered to Ondova Limited Company and is part of a domain name portfolio that has been locked up in bankruptcy court for years. When the UDRP was filed, lawyers acting for United States Bankruptcy Trustee of Ondova Limited Company sent ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2014
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Sun City Casino Gambles On UDRP And Loses - A confusing set of circumstances, but panel rules it certainly isn’t cybersquatting. Sun International Limited, operator of hotels and casinos in Africa and Latin America, has lost a UDRP for SunBet.com. The company failed to prove that the respondent, Sun Ventures Development Limited, lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain name and didn’t prove it was registered in bad faith. This is a case in which the panelists earned their keep; there’s a confusing ... read more ...
Sat 20th September 2014
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General Nutrition Loses Bid To Grab GNC.Asia; Domain Holder Represented By Zak Muscovitch - We don’t cover to many .Asia UDRP’s but this one caught our eye because the Complainant General Nutrition Investment Company owns and operates vitamin and supplement stores all over the United States simply know as GNC. The domain holder, The Web Group of Washington, D.C., Uwas represented by Zak Muscovitch of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The three member panel of Douglas M. Isenberg, Diane Cabell and the Hon. Carolyn Marks Johnson agreed that the term “GNC” was generic and was used all over ... read more ...
Fri 19th September 2014
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Purva.com Lost In UDRP After Winning Last Year: Brokers Email To TM Holder Changes Everything - “The Panel observes that the Complaint filed by Complainant is against the same Respondent in regard to the same disputed domain name as a previous UDRP case, Puravankara Projects Limited v. Shiva Malhotra, WIPO Case No. D2013-0260, decided on March 25, 2013. “The Complaint in that previous proceeding was filed on February 7, 2013. ” Complainant was unsuccessful in persuading the panel who rendered the previous determination (the “previous panel”) that the disputed domain name was the ... read more ...
Thu 18th September 2014
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Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Gets Hit With UDRP On TableForTwo.com By TablefortwoBlog.com - Yesterday we wrote about Frank Schilling’s Name Administration winning its 35th UDRP Today the company got his with another UDRP on the domain name tablefortwo.com The Complaint was filed by a Julie Wampler who owns the domain name tablefortwoblog.com Name Administration has owned the domain name TableforTwo.com since at least 2005 The domain name tablefortwoblog.com was first registered some 6 years later in 2011. There are several trademarks in the USPTO for the term “table for two” and one ... read more ...