Tag Archives: UDRP

Mon 18th August 2014
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Vertical Axis Beats Back UDRP On Ritchey.com - Vertical Axis Inc. represented by Ari and Jason at ESQwire.com, just beat back a UDRP on the domain name Ritchey.com The complaint was brought by Ritchey Design, Inc. of Nevada which is a “company specializing in bicycle components established in 1974 which has registrations for RITCHEY in the US, Canada and the European Community for bicycle components and distributes in over 40 countries, through more than 200 distributors and has a worldwide revenue of $22.5 million The domain has been owned ... read more ...
Mon 11th August 2014
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Google Wins Control Of GlassForSnap.com Based On Its Trademark on Glass in UDRP - Google Inc. (“Complainant”), just won the rights to the domain name GlassforSnap.com. The one member panel of James A. Carmody, Esq., found the domain name GlassforSnap.com was confusing similar to Google’s trademark on the word “Glass”. The domain holder did not submit a response and the domain name went to a page which clearly targeted users of Google and Snapchat. All I can say is if you have a really good domain with the word “Glass” in it you better be careful what you do with ... read more ...
Fri 8th August 2014
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SignEasy.com Saved In UDRP But Panel Finds “Sales Page” Not Legitimate or Fair Use - Glykka LLC of San Francisco, California lost its bid to grab the domain name SignEasy.com. The domain name SignEasy.com was registered back on October 7, 2005. The Complainant wasn’t even incorporated until March 8th 2013. So the domain owner registered the domain some 7 years before the Complainant even existed. The Complainant trademark is dated July 30, 2013 which is 7+ year after the domain holder registered the domain. Not only did the one member panel of Sebastian M.W. Hughes refuse to find ... read more ...
Thu 7th August 2014
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xBiz.com Reports Porn.com Has Been Recovered - Yesterday we wrote about a UDRP that was filed against the domain name Porn.com which we said appeared to be stolen out of a Moniker.com account. Today xBiz.com is reporting that the domain Porn.com has been recovered. It maybe interesting to note that when the domain appeared at the new registrar yesterday the domain was under privacy but today privacy was lifted and the owner was listed as the world famous domainer/adult site operator  lakshmishankar arunkumar The street address of the owner of ... read more ...
 
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Very Troubling: 19 Year Old SouthPaw.com Lost in UDRP - Southpaw Enterprises, Inc. just won the rights to the domain name southpaw.com in a UDRP As a term, Southpaw refers to someone who is left handed. The domain name was registered on April 18, 1995. The Respondent bought the domain name in 2002. The Complainant federal trademark registration is dated March 8, 1983 Despite the domain being 19 years old and owned by the current registrant for 12 years, The one member panel of Debrett G. Lyons explicitly considered and rejected the concept of Laches finding ... read more ...
Wed 6th August 2014
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2 really peculiar UDRP cases explain “technological confusion” - Part of brand is in domain names, but you have to look closely for it. I was rather confused a couple months ago when I saw fashion designer Philipp Plein filed UDRPs against peopleincasinos.com and supportpeopleinneed.org. Both sites featured clothing that the sites claimed was authentic Philipp Plein clothing. But what did these domain names have to do with Philipp Plein? Well, take a look at the domain names again: PeoPLEINcasinos.com SupportPeoPLEINneed.org The ... read more ...
Tue 5th August 2014
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15 Year Old QIQ.com Saved In UDRP Against Trademark Registered in 2012 - The domain name QIQ.com was saved in a UDRP bought by QIQ Communications Pty Ltd of Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia who got a trademark on the term QIQ in 2012 The domain owner was Netico, Inc. of California registered the domain back on March 28, 1999. The panel refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) although there does not seem to be any reason why RDNH was not found. Here are the relevant parts of the one member panel of Gabriela Kennedy: “The Panel accepts that the Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Panel denies QIQ.com UDRP, though denies RDNH - QIQ.com to remain with domain name owner after WIPO decision. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has denied a UDRP filed against the domain name QIQ.com. However, she denied a reverse domain name hijacking claim without giving any sort of reason. Based on the facts presented to the panel, respondent Netico, Inc registered QIQ.com in 1999, more than a decade before complainant QIQ Communications Pty Ltd had any rights to the QIQ name. Therefore, panelist ... read more ...
Mon 4th August 2014
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The 14 Year Old eMoney.com Saved In UDRP Panel Finds $300K Asking Price Ok - Electronic Transaction Systems Corporation just lost its attempt to grab the domain name eMoney.com which was registered back in January 2000. The domain owner was represented by Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaeffer of Esqwire.com The panel found, unlike other panels have found that they $300K price tag was not outrageous. Here are the facts and finding of three member panel of Debrett G. Lyons, Dianne Cabell, Ho-Hyun Nahm: Complainant provides a system to facilitate monetary payments under the name ... read more ...
Wed 30th July 2014
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Owner Of UGN.com Forced to Defend UDRP Against Someone With No Trademark & No Proof - Talk about a waste of money. The owner of the domain name UGN.com just successfully defended a UDRP against UGN, Inc which was represented by Laura Petrolino of Arment Dietrich, Inc., Illinois The owner of the domain has owned it since at least 2001. Complainant had a trademark for the term UGN SOUND SOLUTIONS FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY but not for one for UGN. The one member panelist Sandra J. Franklin, made short work of the decision, throwing the case out since the Complainant failed to “submitted ... read more ...
Mon 28th July 2014
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Vertical Axis Hit With UDRP on 8 Year Old Domain GlobeWay.com - Vertical Axis has just been  Hit With a UDRP on the domain name GlobeWay.com The domain according to DomainTools.com has been owned since at least 2007 and possibly 2006 by Vertical Axis. The domain name is parked to a very generic parking page. The Complainant is not yet listed. I don’t see any federal trademark for the term Global Way, in the United States Database. However there is a trademark for Globalways that was filed in November of 2013 by a German company Jason and Ari have done a great ... read more ...
Thu 24th July 2014
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An Example of Why People Still CyberSquat - Why do people still cybersquat ? That was a question posed a couple of weeks back on Namepros, and while I am not advocating it any way, I am going to give an example of how it still pays off in 2014. PluralSight.in sold on Wednesday for $16,000. The domain was registered in July of 2013, by a gentleman in China who just listed himself as Jeff. No last name, just Jeff. Well just Jeff regged pluralsight.in which has several live trademarks, some before the name was registered and others registered ... read more ...
Wed 23rd July 2014
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3rd Reverse Domain Name Hijacking of The Day: Sin Spirits LLC Guilty On SinVodka.com - Sin Spirits LLC represented by George M. Dipp, Texas has been found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) making it the third RDNH ruling of the day which must be a record, on the domain name SinVodka.com Respondent registered the disputed domain name on November 9, 1997 as evidenced by the Whois records. Complainant makes four attempts to negotiate a purchase of the disputed domain name at Domainsales and Sedo.com on May 6, May 10, May 12 and May 27, 2014, but does not agree to the price ... read more ...
 
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Citybankonline.com Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - CITY BANK (not CitiBank) whose site is CityBankOnline.com and CityBankTexas.com, represented by Kristi Dent of Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated, Texas, USA was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH). The domain in question was CityBank.com. The three member panel UDRP panel of Fernando Triana, Esq, James A. Carmodym, and Dennis A. Foster, Esq said on the issue of RDNH: “”In the present case, the disputed domain name was registered in 1995, with a business model based on pay-per-click ... read more ...
 
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Dealhunter A/S of Denmark Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On DealHunter.com - A three member UDRP panel has found Dealhunter A/S of Frederiksberg, Denmark, represented by Aumento, Denmark guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name DealHunter.com The domain holder was represented by Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaeffer of ESQwire.com The domain name was registered in 1998. The Complainant was incorporated in 2007 and first registered its domain name dealhunter.dk domain name in 2010. The company didn’t even file for the trademark DEALHUNTER until 2013. The ... read more ...
 
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An engaging dates doubt in a UDRP - What if you registered a domain long ago, let it expire, and then registered it again? The date you first registered a domain name is a critical factor in a UDRP. Generally speaking, if your registration predates the complainant’s rights in a term, then the complainant can’t win a UDRP. That’s because it’s impossible that you registered the domain name in bad faith…unless you’re psychic. Some complainants have argued that the renewal of a domain name ... read more ...
Thu 17th July 2014
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After Losing MyArt.com in UDRP, Fed Court Awards Owner Domain + Damages + Attorney Fees - According to a post on the site of the law firm Lewis Lin, the domain owner of MyArt.com who lost a UDRP in April, filed a lawsuit in federal court and not only stopped the transfer of the domain name but got an award of statutory damages, attorney’s fees and litigation costs. We wrote about the UDRP back in April of this year and noted it was the 2nd UDRP filed by the same complaint on the same domain. David Lin, Esq. writing on his firm’s site in a post entitled: “Reverse Domain Hijacking ... read more ...
 
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Domain name owners loses UDRP, sues, gets $7,500 - MyArt.com owner can keep domain name and some cash. In April I wrote about how the owner of My-Art.com filed its second UDRP against the domain name MyArt.com and won. It was a bad decision based, in part, on an incorrect claim that the domain name was transferred to a new owner after the first decision. The owner of MyArt.com didn’t respond to the UDRP filing, but sued after the decision was handed down. The lawsuit, filed by law firm Lewis Lin LLC, claimed reverse ... read more ...
Wed 16th July 2014
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Pinterest Has Universal Rights On Word PIN? Files UDRP On PinSex.com and PinGay.com - Pinterest, Inc. filed a UDRP back in June against two domain name PinSex.com and PinGay.com Before you check out the two domains subject to the UDRP,  I should mention that you better be over 18 and have a strong tolerance for some serious adult material that appears immediately as soon as the sites load. The domain names are fully developed adult sites and  which are not commonly the types of domains that get hit with a UDRP: parked pages, sites which use adsense, gripe sites, domains that do ... read more ...
Mon 14th July 2014
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BleachStain.com Loses Bid To Grab 8 Year Old Bleachstains.com In UDRP Without A Trademark - Jerry G. Roper of Payson, of Utah just lost his attempt to grab two domain names about a generic as they get; Bleachstains.com and Carpetbleachstains.com BleachStains.com was registered in 2006 The domain owner was Dave Chretien and Color Spot Carpet of Torrance, California, US. The Complainant which didn’t have a trademark but a patent In October 2000, Complainant began selling a system for repairing permanent stains either caused by carpet color loss or from additional color added. Complainant ... read more ...
Fri 11th July 2014
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Owner of Mobile.Pro Loses UDRP Bid To Grab Mobile.Co - Inter123 Corporation lost its bid to grab the domain name mobile.co who was represented by David D. Lin of Lewis Lin LLC, New York. The Complainant launched its website in March 2013 at mobile.pro, to provide an online community for mobile communications industry professionals and filed a trademark on the term Mobile.co on March 20, 2014. Its a pretty interesting case in terms of dealing between the parties but pretty disappointing in terms of the result for the reader as they panel found the complainant ... read more ...
Thu 10th July 2014
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After Just 12 Short Years Discover Finally Files A UDRP ON DiscoverCards.com -   The credit card company Discover Financial Services, Inc. filed a UDRP on the domain names DiscoverCards.com and DiscoverCredit.com. Discover uses two main domain names to access it services and promote its credit cards Discover and its Discover It. They own the domain name Discover.com, as well as the domain DiscoverCard.com Discover is paying Google on a Pay Per Click basis to be on top of the term “Discover” and “Discover Card” and the site that is being advertised is DiscoverCard.com It’s ... read more ...
Mon 7th July 2014
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Napster.FM Hit With a UDRP by Rhapsody - A name from the past is back in the news, this time the second coming of Napster located at Napster.Fm was hit with a UDRP by online subscription service Rhapsody International, Inc. Rhapsody owns Napster.com and purchased the company a few years back. Napster.FM has been registered since March of 2012 by Napster.fm LLC. The website does not look to be operable as the top menu is blurred out where you would look for links to Chat, Discovery, About, etc… ... read more ...
Sun 6th July 2014
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Have Trademark Holders Given Up On The URS? Last 17 Disputes Filed, 15 Were UDRP’s - Have trademark holders given up on the Uniform Resolution Service? The URS is something that trademark holders and their representative pushed for at ICANN for years. A cheap, quick take down on obviously trademark infringing new gTLD domain registrations. Although the URS is exactly that a much cheaper and quicker process than a UDRP, if a trademark holder wins a URS the domain registration is simply suspended for the term of the registration and becomes available for re-registration once it drops. Since ... read more ...
Fri 4th July 2014
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URDP Panel Is Not On Nationwide’s Side Denying Bid To Grab 3 Domains - A one member UDRP panel refused Nationwide Insurance Company bid to grab three domain names containing the word “nationwide” The three domains at issues were; The Respondent registered the disputed domain name nationwideautolending.com on January 5, 2006, nationwideautoapproval.com on April 3, 2006, and nationwideautocredit.com on November 18, 2010. Two of the three domains resolve to active websites that offer online auto loan application and approval services, said to involve a network of lenders ... read more ...