Tag Archives: UDRP

Mon 10th February 2014
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Company uses UDRP to go after passed man’s domain name - French publication files publication to try to get domain name from deceased man. Société Du Figaro S.A. of Paris, France, a news publication, has lost a UDRP it filed against a dead man. The group filed the UDRP against the domain name figaro.tv. The domain name is registered to Stefan Blumtritt of “Cut Company” in Germany. Société Du Figaro S.A. pointed out to the panel that the domain name owner apparently died last year. This was certainly helpful information ... read more ...
Fri 7th February 2014
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UDRP Filed Against Garry Chernoff 19 Year Old Domain Gauntlet.com By Warner Bros. - Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc filed a UDRP on the domain name Gauntlet.com today which is owned by domain investor Garry Chernoff’s company NetIncome Ventures Inc. The domain name Gauntlet.com has an original registration date May 21, 1995. Mr. Chernoff’s company according Domaintools.com has owned the domain since at least 2005 but could be the original registrant. The domain name is parked but is returning links for cell phone cases and other leather products. Gauntlet according to Wilkipedia.org ... read more ...
 
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BidPal cybersquatting lawsuit is possibly dubious or feeble researched. You decide. - Lawsuit falsely presumes domain owner is offering to sell the domains. And that’s just part of the problem. In December I wrote about a UDRP for BidPal.com filed by BidPal, Inc. I noted that the UDRP decision against the complainant was probably correct, but that BidPal’s lawyer screwed up the research as well. BidPal, Inc. has now filed a federal lawsuit(pdf) to get the domain name as well as “BidPal” in several other extensions. It also found itself a new ... read more ...
Wed 5th February 2014
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17 Year Old Vernet.com Saved in UDRP - Vernet, of Ollainville , France , just lost its bid to get the domain name Vernet.com in a UDRP which was registered back on April 9, 1997 The UDRP decision was handed down in French. Here are the facts and findings by the one member panel: The Complainant is the company Vernet , a French company specializing in the production and trade of motor vehicles and health equipment and heating equipment parts. The Applicant operates the name Vernet as name and brand for decades. He also holds several made ... read more ...
 
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7 Year Old StableTable.com Saved In UDRP - Hedera AB of Lund, Sweden, just lost its bid to grab the domain name stabletable.com in a UDRP which was registered back on November 24, 2007. The Panel basically threw the Complainants case out and only failed to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking because they believed the owner of the domain changed in 2011. The domain holder who is represented by Mike Rodenbaugh, Esq. already filed a lawsuit in federal court to get a declaratory judgement once the UDRP was filed. Here are the facts and findings ... read more ...
 
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Insurance.Pro Saved In UDRP - Christopher Copeland (“Complainant”), just lost it bid to grab the domain name Insurance.Pro from Michael Silver who was represented by John Berryhil Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel: Complainant asserts the following: Policy ¶ 4(a)(i) Complainant owns rights in the INSURANCE.PRO mark through registrations of the mark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) (e.g., Reg. No. 2,785,018 registered November 18, 2003). The insurance.pro ... read more ...
Tue 4th February 2014
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UDRP Filed On Y8.Net; EntourageMovie.com; EntourageFilm.com - A few interesting UDRP filed today. Web Entertainment, LLC filed a UDRP on the domain name y8.net Y8.net is a gaming site, so is Y8.com which is owned under privacy. UDRP filed on Two character domain names are pretty rare so we will keep on our eye on this one. ON another note if your a fan of the HBO series Entourage you may know that they started the filming of the Entourage movie last month, and today a UDRP was filed on two domain names,  EntourageMovie.com and EntourageFilm.com EntourageMovie.com ... read more ...
 
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Does a UDRP do some-more mistreat than good? - In this post, Nat Cohen makes the argument that damage caused by the UDRP outweighs its benefits. Why are we weakening ownership rights throughout the entire Internet space and subjecting millions of dollars of domains to attempted seizures each year so that mostly low value cybersquatted domains can be removed from circulation? The UDRP is gaining popularity as a means for companies to seize valuable domains without paying for them. So many companies are now using ... read more ...
Fri 31st January 2014
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NC State University loses domain name brawl for Wolfpack.com - Arbitration panel rules that NC State shouldn’t get Wolfpack.com domain name. North Carolina State University, whose athletic teams are called the Wolfpack, has lost a domain name arbitration case for the domain Wolfpack.com. The university filed the case against a company that registered the domain name in 1997. The university argued that the domain name was registered for the purpose of selling it, and used an unsolicited 2007 letter from the domain owner offering ... read more ...
Thu 30th January 2014
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17 Year Old interbanking.com Saved In UDRP: 1 out 3 Panelist Vote For RDNH - Interbanking S.A. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, just lost its bid to grab the domain name interbanking.com from domain investor, Alexander Lerman who was represented by John Berryhill, Phd Esq. The domain name was registered on March 4, 1997. The Complainant was founded on September 25, 1996, when Datacash S.A. and Newnet S.A. merged to form Interbanking S.A. The Complainant owns a number of trademark registrations in Argentina including: INTERBANKING – Registration No. 2037652 dated June 21, 1996 ... read more ...
Wed 29th January 2014
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Public Company Files UDRP On Generic 15 Year Old Domain SteelBuildings.com - A UDRP was just filed on the domain name SteelBuildings.com by a public company in the metal building business: The UDRP was filed by NCI Group, Inc. which is publicly traded as NCI Building Systems Inc. (NYSE: NCS) “Founded in 1984, NCI is one of the top designers, manufacturers and vendors of metal coatings, components and buildings for nonresidential construction in North America.” The comapny has a market cap of over $1.4 Billion dollars. As for the term SteelBuildings.com, the term is ... read more ...
Tue 28th January 2014
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Trademark Holder Loses UDRP Bid To Grab Domains Registered Early As in 1999 With 2012 TM - Ednovo d/b/a Gooru of Palo Alto, just lost its attempt to grab the domain names Gooru.com; Gooru.net; Gooru.org; and Gooru.biz registered in 1999 on the basis of a trademark filed in 2012 with a UDRP Panel Here are the relevant facts and findings from the one member panel The Complainant is a non-profit organization established in 2011, and based in the United States of America, that operates a free search engine via its domain name goorulearning.org, for teachers and students to search for learning ... read more ...
 
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Captain American, Wolverine, and X-Men discovered in Australian domain dispute - A superhero rescue down under. Disney has rescued a handful of its superheroes from an Australian artist. Disney, along with its Pixar and Marvel divisions, filed a cybersquatting complaint against Australian James Kite for the domain names CaptainAmerica.com.au, Wolverine.com.au, Avengers.com.au, Pixar.com.au, and x-men.com.au. Kite appears to be a cartoon artist and was forwarding some of the domain names to his personal site. As soon as he received the dispute, ... read more ...
 
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UNiDAYS guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Company that uses MyUnidays.com tries to hijack Unidays.com. UK company MYUNiDAYS, which offers products at a discount to college students under the UNiDAYS brand, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a cybersquatting case. The company uses MyUnidays.com for its web address and filed a cybersquatting UDRP complaint against Unidays.com. UNiDAYS launched in 2011 and obviously chose the MyUnidays.com domain name because Unidays.com was already registered. ... read more ...
Mon 27th January 2014
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BuyDomains defends UDRP brought by Academy Sports - BuyDomains said it registered AcademyOnline.net as a generic domain name, not because of the sports retailer. BuyDomains, part of NameMedia, has successfully defended a UDRP brought by Academy Sports + Outdoors against the domain name AcademyOnline.net. The company successfully argued that the domain name is made up of two generic words and that the parking page for the domain, which includes links such as “Art Academy” and “Police Academy Online,” was used ... read more ...
Fri 24th January 2014
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Registered In 1994 Graceland.com Hit With UDRP - Someone, presumably the Elvis Presley Estate just filed a UDRP on the domain name Graceland.com The domain name Graceland.com has an original registration date of December 23rd 1994. The domain is owned by a  Simon Higgs of  Burbank California  who has seemed to have owned the domain name continuously since at least the earliest Domaintools.com entry which is from 2004. The domain names is not parked but instead seems to be a religious site and seems to have the same look to it as far back as ... read more ...
Thu 23rd January 2014
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Cobb International Of South Africa; Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Cobb International (Pty) Limited of Wynberg, Sandton, South Africa, represented by DM Kisch Inc., South Africa. has been found  Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain names cobbamerica.com and cobbq.com The Complainant contends that the Domain Names are identical or confusingly similar to the Complainant’s registered trade marks, that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Domain Names and that the Domain Names are being used in bad faith within ... read more ...
 
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Nat Cohen sells LGG.com for $175k to association that filed UDRP opposite a domain name - Company pays up after playing dirty in domain name negotiation. This week’s DNJournal sales report includes a $175,000 sale of LGG.com. When reviewing the report, I instantly knew this domain name was familiar. Sure enough, I’ve written about it before. The company that just bought the domain name, a Finnish dairy company called Valio Ltd, filed a UDRP against Telepathy (owned by domain investor Nat Cohen) last year in an effort to get the domain name. Telepathy ... read more ...
 
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Cobb International guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Company filed UDRP case even though the domain names at issue were not registered in bad faith. South African firm Cobb International has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP decision at World Intellectual Property Organization. Cobb International filed a UDRP for the domain names CobbQ.com and CobbAmerica.com against Chris Holloway, Cobb Depot, Inc., Advanced Outdoor Concepts, Inc in Florida. The respondent in the case was a distributor for ... read more ...
Wed 22nd January 2014
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Company Wins UDRP On Domain It Let Drop After Domain Holder Says He Bought It For $21K - We just wrote about a guy who bought a domain name for $31,000, let it drop and lost a UDRP to regain control. This time Intrac Group AB of Stockholm, just won the rights to the domain name intrac.com, from intrac.biz,  who said they paid $21,500 for the domain. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel The Complainant is the registered owner of a trademark for INTRAC in Sweden (Trademark No. 0372029), filed on July 5, 2004 and registered on May 6, 2005. The Complainant operates ... read more ...
 
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Guy Buys iSound.com For $31K Asks $4M; Lets Its Drop & Loses UDRP, To Get It Back - In one of the more interesting UDRP cases I’ve not because of the law or the decision but because of the fact pattern. Jeremy Same (The Complainant) just lost his bid to get iSound.com back, a domain he bought in 2012 for $31,000 and let drop, to the company that he tried to sell the domain name to for $4 Million dollars. Here are the relevant facts and findings of the one member panel The  Complainant “is an Internet entrepreneur recognized across the world for his introduction of innovative ... read more ...
 
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UDRP row refuses to give lapsed domain to prior owner - Domain owner that offered to sell domain name to respondent let it expire. A UDRP panel has refused to transfer the domain name iSound.com back to a previous owner who let the domain name expire. Jeremy Same filed the case against Richard Weston / dreamGEAR, LLC for the domain name iSound.com. Same’s company owned the domain name, and previously offered to sell it to the respondent, which has a number of trademarks for i.sound and claims to have sold over $50 million ... read more ...
Mon 20th January 2014
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Trademark Owner Loses Bid To Grab 11 Year Old Domain With 1 Year Old Trademark - Andtech Corporation just lost its attempt to grab the domain name andtech.com from the domain owner Portmedia Domains/Portmedia Holdings Ltd which was represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com The Complainant Andtech got its trademark on Christmas Day 2012. The domain name owner registered the domain September 4, 2003. The Complaint offered $1,000 for the domain and the domain owner responded with a $20,000 offer to sell. Instead of buying the domain the complaint decided to spent $5K or more ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Oversteps Its Authority & Transfers 17 Year Old Murko.com - UDRP’s were to settle clear cut disputes for trademark holders where a matching domain name or one which was confusing similar. I think this panel has gone way beyond a set of facts that qualifies for simple in awarding a domain name murko.com registered some 17 years ago back in 1997 to a complainant on common law trademark rights grounds. Moreover for to order a transfer of a domain name on a UDRP the complainant is suppose to show the domain holder registered the domain in bad faith and used ... read more ...
Mon 13th January 2014
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RPG Life Sciences Ltd. of Mumbai Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - RPG Life Sciences Ltd. of Mumbai, India, represented by Anand Anand, India has just been found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain RpgLife.com by a one member UDRP Panel. The domain name was registered back  on October 28, 2005 Despite generating some $47 Million in revenue in 2012-2013 the company tried to grab the domain name away from its owner without compensation. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel: The Complainant operates a pharmaceuticals ... read more ...