Tag Archives: UDRP

Wed 11th June 2014
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Why no RDNH for Thingify.com? - A classic abuse-of-proceeding case, but no RDNH finding. A WIPO panel just handed down a decision in a UDRP for Thingify.com. It follows a familiar story line: 1. Person starts company, but matching .com domain is taken. 2. Company opts to use a different extension, in this case Thingify.net. 3. Company then tries to buy .com but can’t strike a deal at the price it wants. 4. Company files a UDRP it has no chance of winning. In the case of Thingify, Inc, it knew ... read more ...
Fri 6th June 2014
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Malaysian association guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for Spritzer.com - Bottled water company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Chuan Sin Sdn. Bhd of Taiping, Perak, Malaysia has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to get the domain name Spritzer.com through a UDRP. The complainant operates a bottled water company and uses the domain name Spritzer.com.my. (A “spritzer” in most parts of the world is a drink made of wine and carbonated water.) It tried to get a trademark for “spritzer” in the ... read more ...
Fri 30th May 2014
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15 Year Old Generic Kaleidoscope.com Hit With A UDRP -             The domain name Kaleidoscope.com,  about a generic as a term as  you can get,  was just hit with a UDRP. The domain is owned by Xedoc Holding SA.,  who has owned the domain since at least 2001 and maybe as far back as 1999 Of course the term has its own Wikipedia entry. The company who filed the complaint is not yet listed. With just a quick search of just the United States Trademark office I found 20 live trademarks just on the generic term plus many more which includes ... read more ...
 
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Funniest UDRP. Ever. - This respondent is funny, and it has nothing to do with his response. Sometimes you have to go back to dig up gems, like this UDRP case from 2002. It was recently spotted by domain lawyer John Berryhill. The case involved the domain name wwwsportauthority.com, a typo of the sports retailer’s site. The respondent didn’t bother to respond to the case but still managed to make this case hilarious. Here are the parties in the case: Complainant is The Sports Authority ... read more ...
 
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Kevin Ham successfully defends UDRP opposite SNF.com - SNF.com saved in UDRP decision. Kevin Ham’s company Vertical Axis has successfully defended a UDRP filed against its domain name SNF.com. S.P.C.M. SA filed the complaint. It appears to be affiliated with a company that owns SNF.fr. The complainant tried to argue that Vertical Axis was “willfully blind” to its trademark when it registered its domain. Of course, there are lots of companies and organizations that use three letter acronyms. Three letter domains ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2014
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UDRP Panel Spilts On 20 Domains; Domain Holder Keeps Developed Domains Loses Parked Domains - A UDRP panel just awarded several domains to the trademark holder while denying the transfer of others. The only difference to the panel is what the domain owner was doing with the domains. The domain holder got to keep those domains that had “developed websites” on them but but the panel ordered all the parked domains transferred to the trademark holder The Complainant is Blue Diamond Hotels and Resorts Inc and the domain holder is Media Insight of Miami Beach, Florida otherwise known as Vacation ... read more ...
Mon 19th May 2014
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Applicant For New gTLD .TVS Files UDRP On TVS.com; With Revenues Of $5.7 Billion Why Didn’t They Just Buy The Domain? - For the first time an applicant for a new gTLD has filed a UDRP against the matching .com T V SUNDRAM IYENGAR SONS LIMITED out of India applied to operate the new gTLD .TVS The company owns the domain name TVS.in but operates it main site out of  tvsiyengar.com As we told you yesterday, the domain name TVS.com is 17 years old with the current owner PA Gordon which owns the domain name getaway.com has owned the domain for at least 12 years according to domaintools.com The domain name has an original ... read more ...
Sun 18th May 2014
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UDRP Filed On 17 Year Old TVS.com While UDRP on We.com Is Terminated - A UDRP was filed on the three letter domain name, TVS.com The Complainant is a big company,  TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited which is located in Madurai, India. The registrant of  TVS.in  is  TVS Electronics Limited. The company TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited according to Business Week was formed in 1911 looked at a possible IPO back in 2012 and says the company “operates as an automobile distribution company in India. “The company’s business activities include dealership for automobile ... read more ...
Thu 15th May 2014
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Univision Launches Mobile Service & Got The Perfect Domain For It Through A UDRP - Engadget.com reported today that “Univision just partnered with T-Mobile to create a new Spanish-language cellphone service called Univision Mobile. “Underpinned by T-Mo’s network, the new partnership will target the 56 million strong Hispanic American market with “custom-built” plans. Like its parent carrier, those will be contract-free starting at $30 for unlimited texts and calls and $45 for a 2.5GB web plan. Both will get unlimited international texting and 100 minutes of free calls ... read more ...
Wed 14th May 2014
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Company sues to overturn UDRP decision - Company turns to courts (again) to try to overturn adverse UDRP ruling. Technology Online, LLC has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Nevada to overturn a UDRP against the domain name Jeffers.com. Veterinarian supply company Jeffers, Inc. filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization earlier this year and won the case. Technology Online argues that the panelist in that case erred because she considered the date Technology Online acquired the domain ... read more ...
Mon 12th May 2014
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16 Year Old DealHunter.com Hit With UDRP -             The domain name DealHunter,com just got his with a UDRP. The domain has an original regeneration date of April 23, 1998 which makes it over 14 years old. The domain has been owned by the current domain holder since at least 2001 or some 13 years. The domain currently shows a website which has not launched and some ad sense on each side of the page However according to screenshots.com the page as you see it today was just put up a couple of weeks ago on April 27. The previous screenshots.com ... read more ...
Thu 8th May 2014
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Maccabim.com Partners With DomainTools To “Identify Serial Cybersquatters” - According to a press release out today, Maccabim.com, a “researcher and developer of cybercrime solutions to protect brands and IP assets, today announced the launch of its Serial Cybersquatter Detector (SCD) Network powered by DomainTools® The SCD Network “instantaneously identifies both the serial cybersquatters exploiting its members’ trademarks, as well as the opportunities to either initiate or join class complaints through the platform.” “Members thereby reduce their Uniform Domain-Name ... read more ...
 
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Holdon.com 1st Registered in 1997; Transfered To New Owner in 2013 Lost In UDRP - Amicus Trade AB of Båstad, Sweden just won control of the domain name HoldOn.com This is the third recent case where a UDRP panel found the transfer of a domain name to a third party amounts to a new registration for purposes of the Policy The original registration date, which is this case was March 18, 1997. However, the current domain holder acquired the domain name this year (actually it appears the domain holder may have acquired the domain back in 2009 and financed it but it was in the name ... read more ...
 
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After 15 years of trying, association uses UDRP to get HoldOn.com domain name - Hold on just a minute… Amicus Trade AB has been trying to get the domain name Holdon.com for its Holdon brand of fasteners since at least 1999. That’s when the company sent a letter to the (then) owner of the domain with an offer to buy it. Ownership of the domain has changed multiple times since then according to Whois record. In 2013 the whois changed to Dharshinee Naidu. According to DomainTools, Naidu’s email address is associated with 36,544 domain names. Amicus ... read more ...
Wed 7th May 2014
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Company loses UDRP opposite 20-year-old-domain, though maybe is shouldn’t have. - Panel believes registrant registered domain name over 20 years ago. It didn’t. German company Softway AG has lost a UDRP it filed against the 20-year-old domain name Softway.com. On the surface, it appears to be a particularly egregious case. Although Softway AG claimed it’s been around since 1989, it didn’t set up a web presence until 2007, at which point it registered Softway.de. It’s at that time that Softway AG started asking the owner of Softway.com ... read more ...
Mon 5th May 2014
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Qwalify Loses Bid To Grab Qualify.com In UDRP But Panel Fails To Find RDNH - Qwalify, Inc. of Ontario, Canada, lost its bid to grab the domain name qualify.com from Gregory Ricks the domain holder who represented himself. The Complainant based its claim to the domain based on its trademark on the term QWALIFY which is of course a mis-spelling of the proper word, which was the subject of the complaint. The domain name was registered September 27, 1999 by Mr. Ricks. The one member panel,Andrew D. S. Lothian however, refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) based ... read more ...
 
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Qwalify does’t validate for send in Qualify.com domain name dispute - Panel says Qualify.com wasn’t registered in bad faith to take advantage of Qwalify, Inc. Greg Ricks has successfully defended his third UDRP dispute in under a month. Ricks previously defended JustBelieve.com and Massy.com, and today WIPO issued a decision in his favor for Qualify.com. I wrote about the Qualify.com filing at length in February, so you can read the gist of the complaint here. A key to the case was that Ricks registered the domain name more than a ... read more ...
Fri 2nd May 2014
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NewsRepublic.com Saved In UDRP As Complainant Doesn’t Even Allege Bad Faith - Mobile’s Republic (MR) of Bordeaux France, just lost its attempt to grab the domain name NewsRepublic.com in a UDRP The domain holder was represented by ESQwire.com MR was represented by in-house council. The domain holder offered to sell the domain for $45,000 to MR who then filed this UDRP. The domain was purchased by the domain holder on October 3, 2012 from a third party, and domain name was going to a parked page as it was by the previous owner Basically the three member panel found that News ... read more ...
Tue 29th April 2014
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FICEP SPA guilty of retreat domain name hijacking in unwashed UDRP case - This case is particularly dirty. Italian machine tool manufacturing company FICEP SPA has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP for FICEP.com. Czech Arbitration Court panelist Jane Seager got the call right as this is a very clear cut case of reverse domain name hijacking. It was a pretty dirty filing. FICEP SPA filed a case against respondent FICEP in October. It was a clear-cut case that it lost. Although FICEP SPA has been around for decades, ... read more ...
Mon 28th April 2014
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Ficep.com Registrant Wins Again and Panelist Declares RDNH - Second time around is no better than the first for Ficep SPA, they filed a second UDRP to try to get the domain FICEP.com. This was not company vs domain investor but rather an Italian company founded in 1930 vs a French company founded in 1978. The panelist did not seem too happy that the Italian company filed a second UDRP on the same name with basically all the same facts.  Janet Seager went on to say, Furthermore the Panel finds that the Complainant has engaged in RDNH because, at the time that ... read more ...
Fri 25th April 2014
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Frank Schilling beats $200 billion medical hulk Novartis in UDRP - 9 year delay in filing UDRP hurts pharma company’s claim of disruption to its business. Frank Schilling has successfully defended the domain name ClearCare.com in a UDRP filed by Novartis AG. Novartis, which has a $200 billion market cap, offers a line of contact lens cleaning solutions under the name Clear Care. Schilling (through attorney John Berryhill) noted that his business involves registering expired domain names and parking them with ad links unrelated ... read more ...
Tue 22nd April 2014
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My-Art.com owners gets MyArt.com in second try UDRP - Domain transfer (that didn’t actually happen) resets the clock for registration date. My Art, a French company that operates the website My-Art.com, has convinced a Czech Arbitration Court UDRP panelist to order the transfer of the domain name MyArt.com. This is the second time My Art has filed a UDRP against the domain name. My Art lost a case it filed in 2011 because the registrant of the domain name had registered it in 1996, well before the company had a trademark ... read more ...
Thu 17th April 2014
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Panelist digs adult pivotal fact in Massy.com UDRP - Intent-to-use trademark does in complainant. Neal Massy Holdings, a business conglomerate operating in the Carribean, has lost a UDRP it filed against the domain name Massy.com. Massy.com is owned by domain investor Gregory Ricks. Ricks defended himself without counsel in the UDRP. He made a good defense, pointing out that the domain name is a dictionary word that he registered 14 years ago. He overlooked one key thing, though. Panelist Paul M. DeCicco found this ... read more ...
Wed 16th April 2014
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Calvin Klein Loses UDRP To a Take F*ckCalvinKlein.com Away From “Fat, bald” Domain Owner - Calvin Klein just lost a UDRP In Attempt To a gain control of the domain name FuckCalvinKlein.com with the domain owner using a pretty unique argument to keep control of the domain name that was parked. The Domain holder responded to the UDRP arguing that he” does not believe any consumer could reasonably believe that the best route to finding Complainant’s goods on the Internet is by entering fuckcalvinklein.com into a web browser”. “Respondent registered the domain name to be used in the ... read more ...
Tue 15th April 2014
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Hershey’s Files UDRP On 16 Year Old ChocolateWorld.com; 17 Year aged NewBody.com Also Hit - A couple of interesting UDRP filings today Hershey’s filed a UDRP on the domain name ChocolateWorld.com The domain name was registered in back in 1997 however it is going to a blank page and according to Screenshots.com the domain may never have resolved to any type of site or page, not even a parked page. Hershey does have a trademark on the term Chocolate World going back to 2005 as well as HERSHEY’S CHOCOLATE WORLD which was registered in 2011/2012 Another UDRP filed today is against another ... read more ...