Tag Archives: UDRP

Thu 3rd July 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
ShoeBuy.com’s UDRP record drops to 3 and 3 - Company loses a UDRP for the third time in just 6 tries. Online shoe retailer ShoeBuy.com might need to re-read the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Policy. It just lost its third UDRP. It has only won three times. This latest loss comes courtesy of typosquatting recovery firm CitizenHawk, which helped ShoeBuy.com go after ShowBuy.com. Yes, w is right next to e on the keyboard. But a UDRP panel determined that ShowBuy.com, made up of two common dictionary words, is not ... read more ...
Wed 2nd July 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Owner Of Ruraliving.com A $7 Billion Company Loses UDRP On RuralLiving.com - AgStar Financial Services, ACA (“Complainant”),  just lost its bid to grab the domain name RuralLiving.com from Ashantiplc Ltd, who was represented by John Berryhill, Esq. , who also in full disclosure represents our company in UDRP cases. The complainant owns the domain name Ruraliving.com (missing the other letter “L”) along with a trademark on the term (also with the missing “L”) The domain holder registered the domain name RuralLiving.com in August 3, 2005, the Complainant’s trademark ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
UGN.com Under Same Ownership For 10+ Years Hit With UDRP - The three letter domain name UGN.com which appears to have been owned or under the control of  Boca Database Services, Inc since at least 2004, has been hit with a UDRP. The domain name is not resolving. The last entry that Screenshots.com has for the domain name is from 2009, and it looks to be an very simply placeholder. The name of the COmplainant is not listed but their is suprinly only 1 trademark in the USPTO for the term UGN and that was filed on March 1 2014, by United Golf Network, Inc. ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
TechCrunch.com Wins Rights To The The Hack Domain TechCrun.ch in UDRP - A one member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name hack of Techcrun.ch to the publisher of Techcrunch.com which also owns the domain name TechCrunch.ch For those that don’t know a domain hack is where a registrant uses a domain extension, typically a two letter country code (ccTLD) to spell a word. In this case the .Ch extension is the country code for Switzerland and since its a ccTLD is subject to the rules, regulations and laws of the underlying country. The short decision was published in ... read more ...
Tue 1st July 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
MSC.com Purchased At Sedo Auction For $48K In Dec Saved In UDRP - MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company Holding S.A. of Geneva, Switzerland, just lost its attempt to grab the domain name MSC.com Its an interesting case because the domain name was acquired by the domain holder Paul Kocher, in a Sedo auction for $48,000 in December 2013 Actually Jeremiah Johnston of Sedo represented the domain holder. After the auction the trademark holder offered to buy the domain for $50,000 which the domain holder rejected and the UDRP was filed. Here are the relevant facts and ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Personal Communication Systems, Inc Gulity Of RDNH On Healthwave.com - Personal Communication Systems, Inc. of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, represented by Bell, Davis Pitt, P.A. was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name healthwave.com. The Complainant registered a trademark on the term HEALTHWAVE in October 2012. The domain holder registered the domain in 2002 The one member panel of Andrew D. S. Lothian wrote: “The Respondent in the present case has requested that the Panel make a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
The Spamhaus Project Spamhaus.org, Files UDRP On Spamhaus.com -             The Spamhaus Project, Ltd which is the go to source for many to identify and track spammers  just filed a UDRP for the domain, Spamhaus.com The Spamhaus Project, Ltd operates under the URL Spamhous.org The domain name Spamhaus.com is owned by Ondova Limited. You might recall that Ondova Limited is the company which Jeff Baron owns or owned who has been in litigation for many years now over the control and disposition of the company assets, including the bankruptcy court ordered ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
North Carolina association guilty of Reverse domain name hijacking - Company claims rights dating to 2010 and domain name was registered in 2002. But… Personal Communication Systems, Inc of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a UDRP against the owner of HealthWave.com. Healthwave is the name of an automated medical appointment reminder system that Personal Communication Systems sells. It has a trademark for Healthwave, but the earliest claimed use dates to 2010. ... read more ...
Fri 27th June 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Hmm…UDRP row orders send of Galvanize.com - Panelist orders generic domain be transferred to local startup accelerator. A National Arbitration Forum has ordered the transfer of the domain name Galvanize.com in a highly questionable decision. At every turn in deciding the case, NAF panelist Dr. Reinhard Schanda gave the benefit of the doubt to complainant Galvanize LLC. That said, the respondent could have put up a better case. Respondent Brett Blair / ChristianGlobe Network bought the domain name in an expired ... read more ...
Wed 25th June 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
The Great Courses loses dual UDRPs on a same day - Company that owns TheGreatcourses.com loses two cases in one day. The Teaching Company, LLC, d/b/a The Great Courses, lost two UDRPs on the same day this week. The company lost a case filed against Marchex for GreatCourses.com and against Michael Berkens for GreatCourse.com. Conveniently, John Berryhill represented both parties. In both cases, The Great Courses failed to prove the domain names were registered and used in bad faith. Marchex has owned GreatCourses.com ... read more ...
Tue 24th June 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
XNXX.com Loses UDRP On XXNX.com - A three member UDRP panel has rejected the owner of a popular adult webiste XNXX.com attempt to grab the domain name XXNX.com in a Very interesting opinion. The complaint was brought by WGCZ S.R.O. who was represented by Randazza Legal Group The domain holder was represented by The Muscovitch Law Firm Here are the arguments made by the domain holder: “”The Respondent first claims to have registered the disputed domain name, , on or about November 29, 2002, and submits what are said to be the ... read more ...
Mon 23rd June 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Stolen Three Letter .Com, IDA.com Awarded Back To Owner In UDRP After Godaddy Acct Hacked -     The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (“the Centre”) one of the “new” UDRP providers returned the allegedly stolen domain name IDA.com to World Hair Cosmetics Co Ltd, of Hong Kong which owned the domain since  2005. The panel writes: “In April, 2014, the Complainant discovered that its account with GoDaddy.com had been hacked and that, as a result, the Registrar had been changed to PublicDomain Registry Ltd and the Complainant was no longer the registrant. The Complainant ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
In A Very Long Opinion The UDRP On Dune.com Is Denied Did DomainSponsor Save The Day? - Dune Holdings Limited of London, United Kingdom just lost its attempt to grab the domain Dune.com The domain holder Jeffrey Greenberg was represented by John Berryhill, Esq. who also represents my company has owned the domain since 2004. The opinion is unusually long and contains not only the majority opinion but two separate Concurring opinions thereby all three panelist filed an opinion in this case. The majority UDRP opinion was written by Adam Taylor. The panel decided the case solely on the ... read more ...
Fri 20th June 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Frank Schiilling’s Name Adminstration Hit With UDRP on Puket.com From Puket.com.br - Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc., Hit been hit with UDRP on the domain name Puket.com The complainant is IMB Textil S.A. which seems to be a fairly large textile comapny in Brazil. The company’s website is at puket.com.br According to its Linkedin Page (translated by Google Translate from Portuguese): “The company was formed in 1988, the result of the dream of two brothers, Adolfo and Claudio Bobrow. Today has two industrial units with over 9000 m², located in São Paulo and Campo ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
UDRPsearch owners sues after being threatened with UDRP - Virtual Point sues after person threatens UDRP if it doesn’t sell a domain for $1,000. The owner of UDRP database site UDRPSearch.com has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) after being threatened with a UDRP. Virtual Point Inc filed the lawsuit after an individual tried to buy the domain name ALFinancial.com and allegedly threatened to file a UDRP if Virtual Point did not agree to a low price. According to the filing, Joseph Rosenzweig contacted the plaintiff about acquiring ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Michael Berkens wins UDRP box involving dual colorful lawyers - Randazza and Berryhill square off over X-Videos.com. Two of the most colorful lawyers in the trademark/UDRP business squared off in a UDRP over one of Michael Berkens’ domain names. Marc Randazza’s law firm represented WGCZ S.R.O., which filed a UDRP over Berkens’ domain name X-Videos.com. John Berryhill represented Berkens. Anyone familiar with the work of Randazza and Berryhill would expect rather colorful submissions by each party. Indeed, the three person ... read more ...
Thu 19th June 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Several general domains strike with UDRPs recently - A handful of generics are hit with UDRPs, and one previous complainant called me… I’ve noticed a handful of seemingly generic domain names get his with UDRPs over the past few days. Here are some that have hit my radar: southpaw.com qiq.com verb.com emoney.com There can always be extenuating circumstances behind a UDRP filing, such as domain theft. But on the face of it these look like losing cases. That brings up something interesting that happened over the weekend. ... read more ...
Tue 17th June 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
UDRP’s Filed On Verb.com, QIQ.com and AmericanForce.com - Two UDRP’s were just filed against two very good domain names. Moroccanoil Israel Ltd. Verb Hair Products Canada Inc./Verb Products Inc. filed the UDRP against Verb.com Verb.com has been owned since at lease 2002 by a Richard Bloxham. According to Screenshots.com the domain name Verb.com has been parked since at least August 2005. The parked page that I see currently and the one’s viewable on Screenshots appear to only contain links to language  and nothing about hair products. Looks like an ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Funny: UDRP Panel Rejects Developer of iFunny.Mobi’s Attempt To Grab iFunny.com - A three member UDRP panel has denied the attempt of Okruzhnost LLC of Penza, Russian Federation, attempt to grab the domain name ifunny.com owned by Six Media Ltd. of Hong Kong, represented by Esquire.com Here are the facts and findings from the three member panel, which consisted of Gabriela Kennedy, Nicholas Weston and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C.: The Complainant is a software company that develops mobile applications and websites. The Complainant launched a website ifunny.mobi and mobile application ... read more ...
Mon 16th June 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
14 Year Old eMoney.com Hit With UDRP; URS Filed On Sci.Technology - The owner of the domain name eMoney.com has just gotten hit with a UDRP. The domain name according to DomainTools.com has an original registration date of 2000 and the registrant/administrative contact still as it was in 2000, a “E Will”. The domain name current seems to be directing into an advertising program as opposed to going to a site or a PPC or landing page. The domain was until December of 2013 according to screenshots.com parked for many years. The complainant of  the UDRP is not listed. There ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Mrs. Jello Loses UDRP On Milly.com After Rejecting Offer To Sell & Not Filing An Answer - Milly LLC of New York, New York, just won control of the domain name Milly.com in a UDRP which was owned by Mrs. Jello, LLC which of course the company owned by the late Igal Lichtman. Sadly no one responded to the UDRP on behalf of Mrs. Jello, LLC, although someone apparently rejected an offer presented sometime this year by the Complaintant and changed the parked page from adult links to links to the Complainant Milly LLC has been using the domain name MillyNy.com for its website since 2001 Here ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
HP employees threatened aspirant Splunk? - Competitor says HP employees and consultant set up websites and social media accounts to disparage it…and then crossed the line with physical threats. I’ve read a lot of bizarre domain name disputes, but two recent ones involving an HP employee take it to another level. Big data company Splunk just won two UDRP domain name disputes against the domain names DontGetSplunked.com and SplunkFail.com. Splunk alleged that these were basically part of a grassroots campaign ... read more ...
Thu 12th June 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Patient.co.uk UDRP Bid To Grab Patient.com Denied; $2 Million Asking Price May Have Doomed RDNH - Egton Medical Information Systems Limited of the United Kingdom which owns and operates Patient.co.uk, lost its attempt to grab the domain name Patient.com in a UDRP. The domain owner is Health Axis Group of Tampa, Florida. Despite the three member panel of Gabriela Kennedy, Nick J. Gardner and David E. Sorkin finding that the Complainant didn’t meet any of the three requirements of the UDRP, they did not find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking nor did they even discuss the issue. Here are the relevant ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BigBang.com - Javier Zetter Casillas of Guadalajara, Mexico, represented by  AN-KI, Mexico,  has  been found guilty of Reverse  Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name BigBang.com,  which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. which was represented as usual by ESQwire.com PC. Mr Casillas brought his case based on trademarks in the United States , Canada and Mexico based on registered trademarks for the term “Big Bang Identidad Enmpresarial” the earliest of which was filed in Mexico on June 9, 2006 and ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Egton loses Patient.com UDRP, though it should have been retreat domain name hijacking - Egton Medical loses big time, but panel doesn’t admonish it for frivolous filing. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited has lost a UDRP it filed against Health Axis Group LLC in March over the domain name Patient.com. This was a particularly egregious filing and obvious abuse of the policy. The three person panel found that Egton Medical didn’t prove any of the three prongs of the UDRP. Egton also made ridiculous arguments, such as Health Axis Group’s ownership ... read more ...