Tag Archives: UDRP

Wed 9th October 2013
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Top turn domain deliberate in Tes.co domain name dispute - TES.CO is confusingly similar to TESCO, and soon the top level domain will play a bigger role in domain disputes. In July I wrote about grocery chain TESCO filing a dispute against the domain name tes.co. A decision has now been rendered. UDRP panels typically disregard the top level domain name when it comes to determining if a domain name is confusingly similar to a trademark. If .co was ignored in this case, then TESCO would fail as they’d have to argue that ... read more ...
Tue 8th October 2013
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La Salle U Allows The Direct Match Domain To Be CyberSquatted On for Over 13 Years & It Sells Email Addresses Too - La Salle University won control of it’s direct match .com domain name today LasalleUniversity.com in a one member UDRP ruling. The fact that La Salle, won control of this domain isn’t the story. The story is it took La Salle over 13 years to even file the UDRP against a domain holder who was not only parking the domain name with results going to other educational links but even sold email addresses to third parties using the domain name. The domain was registered in July 2000. The UDRP was filed ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft Wins Control Of 13 Bing Domain Names In UDRP: BingFrance.com, BingSpain.com; BingFace.com - Microsoft just won control over 13 domain names infringing on its Bing Trademark. Some of the domains like BingFrance.com, BingSpain.com and BingBrazil.com are easy to see why the company would want the domains. Some others like Bing119.com and BingFace.com are a bit stranger. One domain BingBaidu.com was a double threat infringing on the trademarks of two companies which I assume either would have been entitled to.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 7th October 2013
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ThePrive.com Loses Bid To Grab 17 Year Old Prive.com In A UDRP - Fortrend Group LlC of Port Orange, Florida, whose website is located at Theprive.com, lost its bid to grab the generic domain name Prive.com Unfortunately  the panel did not find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking and even failed to discuss the issue although the complainant only started in business in 2008, only received a  trademark in 2010 and the domain name was registered in 1996 and of course the word Prive is generic the English translation of the French word private. Of course the domain holder ... read more ...
 
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Sorry ThePrive.com, we can’t only take Prive.com - Company fails to grab domain name through UDRP. The operators of the sample sale website Privé, online at ThePrive.com, have lost a UDRP against the domain name Prive.com. This is despite the respondent not filing a formal response. There are a number of reasons the complaint failed, including that Privé is a generic term. But the panelist explained in great detail how badly the complainant’s lawyers screwed up, too. Prive.com was registered back in 1996, well ... read more ...
Wed 2nd October 2013
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Cognac Maker REMY MARTIN Loses UDRP On TheRemyMartin.com: Domain Holder Is Saved By Social Networks - E. REMY MARTIN C° of Cognac, France, just lost a UDRP on the domain name TheRemyMartin.com to a “Remy Martin” of Palm Desert, California who appears to have represented himself. The one member panel found that the domain holder did not register the domain in bad faith despite the fact that the domain was inactive  and was being held to develop a blog of restaurant reviews. Interestingly the case seemed to turn on the domain holder’s social networking accounts and used the domain holders ... read more ...
Tue 1st October 2013
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17 Year Old Domain Vendita.com (Sale In Italian) Saved In UDRP & Narrowly Misses RDNH Ruling - Vendita Technology Group, LLC just lost its bid to grab the domain name Vendita.com The domain owner was represented by Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaeffer of ESQwire.com. Although the complainant had a trademark on the term Vendita the three member UDRP panel found the term was generic and would have found Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) if not for the citation of one case by the Complainant Here are the relevant findings by the panel: The Domain Name was registered by Respondent on November ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed On 14 Year Old Three Letter .Com: QLP.com -                       Quality Logo Products, Inc. has filed a UDRP against Get On The Web Limited of Great Britain on the 3 letter domain name QLP.com As you can see the domain name goes to a page where the domain is being offered for sale for $125,000 The site on QLP.com says: Get On The Web Limited some years ago registered for its websites, portals and client projects a number of generic domain names (including this one), which are now no longer required. We are offering for sale the ... read more ...
 
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Vanity.com settles with Vanity Shop, transfers domain name - Valuable Vanity.com domain name changes hands as a result of lawsuit. The owners of Vanity.com have settled a legal dispute with Vanity Shop of Grand Forks, resulting in a transfer of the domain name to the clothing company. In June 2012, National Arbitration Forum panelist Nelson A. Diaz made a shocking decision in favor of complainant Vanity Shop in a UDRP for the domain name. After the decision was handed down, Vanity.com, Inc. filed a lawsuit to halt the transfer. That ... read more ...
Fri 27th September 2013
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Claiming heading to a tenure “women”, association files UDRP opposite women-asia.com - Sorry guys, you don’t own “women”. An international modeling agency claiming to have trademarks for the term “women” used them to try to wrestle away the domain name women-asia.com in a UDRP. It lost. PEC Intellectual Property Management B.V. of Amsterdam, which is affiliated with modeling agency Women Management, filed the complaint against a domain owner from Thailand. The complainant actually has some stylized trademarks for the term “women” in various ... read more ...
Wed 25th September 2013
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JetGo guilty of RDNH after filing “seriously misleading” box opposite Frank Schilling - Australian charter jet company didn’t give the full story to WIPO panel. Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has successfully defended another UDRP filed against one of its domain names. The three person UDRP panel also found the complainant guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. JetGo Australia, an airplane charter company, filed the complaint over the domain name JetGo.com. This is a classic case of a company adopting a company name in which the .com was ... read more ...
 
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Walmart goes after dispute website and man responds with indignant rant - Gripe site creator demands Walmart pay him before he hands over domain name. Walmart has filed a dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to take control of the domain name WalmartDoorGreeter.com. [Update: the domain owner has transferred the domain to WalMart.] The domain name was registered by a Missouri man who set up a gripe site about how much Walmart pays its employees. Gripe sites are OK in certain circumstances. But after receiving ... read more ...
Tue 24th September 2013
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Radix, TLDH & Westerdal Asks ICANN To Suspend All Pending Expert Panels In New gTLD Process - Three large applicants to the new gTLD program sent a letter to ICANN yesterday to complaint about the Experts appointed by The Dispute Resolution Service Providers relating to the Community Objection process especially those at the ICC and asked ICANN to “ask all contracted arbitrators to temporarily suspend their decision making until ICANN can conduct a basic level of training for the actual Expert Panels on the AGB guidelines and their interpretations.” “Only Experts who are successfully ... read more ...
Mon 23rd September 2013
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FileSense, Inc. Loses 2nd UDRP This Year On The Domain FileSense.com - FileSense, Inc. represented by Ronnie Allen Sheppick of Utah just lost its 2nd UDRP this year on the domain name FileSense.com. Back in March 2013, we covered this same company’s attempted to grab this same domain name away from the same domain owner. The domain name owner has now defended two UDRP on the same domain per se, (without  the representation of an attorney) so he didn’t have to incur legal fees but has now spent a lot of time defending a domain he got for $350 on the drop. While ... read more ...
 
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DomCollect AG Loses UDRP On 18 Facebook Typo Domain Names - DomCollect AG just lost a UDRP of a bunch of Facebook typo domain names that they didn’t even bother to respond to. DomCollect according to at least one report is owned or is a subsidiary of United Internet the same company that owns Sedo.com and 1and1.com Here are the domain names: dominalaventaconfacebook.com facebookatemybaby.com facebookbuyingclub.com facebookconsultancy.net facebook-consulting.net facebooklikespage.com facebooklikespages.com facebook-marketing-service.info fäcebook.org facebookpararestaurantes.com facebooksafetyforteens.com facebooksafetypup.com facebooksafetypup.org facebook-site.org facebooktools.net hpukfacebook.com myspace-facebook.com   DomCollect ... read more ...
 
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Viacom CEO loses domain brawl opposite cybersquatter - Philippe Dauman loses UDRP, but that may not be the last of it. Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman has lost a UDRP for the domain name philippepierredauman.com He lost the UDRP because he didn’t convince the panel that he had trademark rights in his own name. Panelist Richard G. Lyon followed the letter of the UDRP as well as precedent in coming to his decision. That was the right thing to do. But I also don’t hesitate to render my own opinion that the person who registered ... read more ...
Fri 20th September 2013
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NameCheap.com Files 4 UDRP’s Against 7 Domains - NameCheap.com filed four separate UDRP today with the National Arbitration Forum for a bunch of typo’s The first case involves three typo domain names: namechea.com naecheap.com nameceap.com The 2nd case filed by NameCheap.com involves two typo’s” nmecheap.com namehceap.com The third case involves just one typo domain: namecehap.com The 4th case also involves just one typo: mamecheap.com As it involves a big registrar in the space we will keep our eye on all. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Aida.me Saved In UDRP By Domain Holders Children - Aida Cruises whose website is Aida.de just lost a UDRP on the domain name Aida.me. Although the complainant had a registered trademark on the term Aida the domain holder registered the domain name for his daughter which won him the UDRP: “The Respondent submits that his daughter, born December 15, 2010, is named “Aida”. The Respondent has three other children named Zakaria, Danyaal and Mikaeel. The Respondent has registered domain names for each of his children for their personal use. The Respondent ... read more ...
Thu 19th September 2013
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12 Year Old Domain DIMY.com Saved In UDRP - The Complainant INDÚSTRIA E COMÉRCIO DE CONFECÇÕES DI MIRMAY LTDA of Brazil, lost its bid to grab the domain name DIMY.com from a chinese registrant. The domain name was registered on November 16, 2001. The Complainant was founded in 1994. Here are the relevant findings of the one member panel: It manufactures and sells a wide range of fashion products under the Trade Mark and the trade mark DI MIRMAY, including clothing, bags and accessories. The Trade Mark is derived from the Complainant’s ... read more ...
Wed 18th September 2013
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Troubling Decision: Tupras.com Registered In 1996 Lost In UDRP To “Trademark” Registered in 2000 - In a pretty troubling one member UDRP WIPO decision a trademark holder of a turkey trademark first registered in 2000 was awarded the domain name Tupras.com which was registered in 1996. The panel seemed to award the domain name based solely that the owner of the domain name Mehmet Kahveci, “has a long history of registering domain names that correspond to the name of well known Turkish companies” While the panel acknowledged that the domain name was registered a very long time ago calling it: “One ... read more ...
 
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Bergzeit GmbH Owner Of Bergzeit.de: Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Bergzeit GmbH of Wooden Churches , Germany , represented by lawyers Riegger , Ludwigsburg, Germany  has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Bergzeit.com by a one member WIPO panel. Bergzeit translates into Mountain Time in German. The UDRP decision was published in German. The complainant is the owner of the domain name bergzeit.de and offers in this since 2000 , among other equipment and clothing for mountain sports and outdoor activities. The complainant ... read more ...
Tue 17th September 2013
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14oz.net Loses Bid To Grab 13 Year Old Domain Name 14oz.com in UDRP - BREAD Butter GmbH Co. of Berlin, Germany, which operates under the domain name 14oz.net just lost its bid to gain control of the domain name 14oz.com in a one person UDRP decision. In the year 1999 the Complainant established a retail and wholesale business under the brand “14oz”. The business mainly focusses on the design, production and retailing of high quality apparel. Until 2004 the Complainant maintained its business in the city of Cologne and then moved to Berlin. In October 2012 the ... read more ...
 
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HealthySolutions.com Owned Since 2000, Lost In UDRP As Panel Rejects Laches - Health Management Resources Corporation just won the rights to the domain name HealthySolutions.com in a one member panel National Arbitration Forum Decision, despite the fact that the domain was registered and owned by the domain holder Todd Kingsley since March 6, 2000 and the case seemed to turn on the fact the domain name was parked and some of the links were found to be in the classes covered by the trademark. Here are the facts and findings by the one member panel: Complainant owns rights in ... read more ...
Mon 16th September 2013
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Paramount Pictures Gets Paramount.co.uk In Nominet Ruling After Owner Asks For £120,000 - Paramount Pictures Corporation was awarded the domain name the domain name Paramount.co.uk in an arbitration decision by Nominet when operates the .Uk ccTLD. Its a pretty interesting decision since the domain Paramount.co.uk, was first registered as on June, 25th 2005 with the then Registrant identified as TagNames Limited (UK Co. No. 4534942), and with the Administrative Contact listed as “Andy Hugh”. The registration remained this way until a transfer was recorded on 29 December, 2012 from ... read more ...
 
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Stolen domain name recovered by UDRP - Education group that manages Thompson Island gets its domain name back. Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center has recovered the domain name ThompsonIsland.org through a UDRP case. The group alleges that the domain name was stolen from its Network Solutions account. According to documents provided to the UDRP panel, it appears that an unauthorized person changed the password on the complainant’s registrar account as well as the challenge questions used ... read more ...