Tag Archives: UDRP

Thu 25th July 2013
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Sports training association fouls out in D1.com domain name grab - Company fails to take D1.com domain name from rightful owner. D1 Sports Holdings, LLC has lost a UDRP complaint it filed against the domain name D1.com. As you can imagine, D1.com was registered a long time ago. It was registered in 1995 and belongs to New Dimension One Spas, Inc, which acquired the assets of Dimension One Spas earlier this year. Get it? Dimension One, or D1? Apparently D1 Sports Holdings, which claims it started using the D1 mark in 2003, didn’t ... read more ...
Wed 24th July 2013
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WOW: PNC Bank Loses UDRP On 9 PTCBank Domains Going To Parked Pages With A Similar Logo To The Bank - The UDRP rulings get nutter and more inconsistent by the day and today a one member panel denied PNC Financial Services Group, Inc which owns and operates PNC Bank on 9 domains all containing the term PTCbank even though the domains were parked and the domain owner used a logo on the parked domains that a copy of Complainant’s “PowerLink” logo and has the same colors as those used in Complainant’s design. The panel found “PNC is the dominant component of the trademark” “PTC is the dominant ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schiling’s Name Administration & Berryhill Beat Back UDRP On Spielwarenmesse.com (ToyFair in German) - Spielwarenmesse eG of Nürnberg, Germany,  has lost its bid to grab the domain name spielwarenmesse.com which is ToyFair in German in a UDRP away from Frank Schilling’s Name Administration which was represented as always by John Berryhill. Here are the relevant fact and findings by the three member panel: The Complainant, Spielwarenmesse eG, is a German cooperative which has been organising a trade fair for the toy industry on an annual basis since 1950. On March 31, 2006, the Complainant filed ... read more ...
 
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LoveYahoo.com? Yahoo! Wins 33 Domains In 1 UDRP - Yahoo! was awarded 33 domain names today in a single UDRP The decision issued by one of the newer UDRP providers, the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and included many typos of Yahoo products including Rocket Mail, a company Yahoo acquired fro $92 million;  Ymail and Flickr as well as a few non-typo domain names including LoveYahoo.com; YahooPhoto.com and YahooArticle.com: Here are all the domains won in the UDRP:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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WowWe Loses UDRP Bid on 14 Year Old Domain WowWe.com - WowWe, Inc. of The Woodlands, Texas, just lost a UDRP decision on the domain name wowwe.com Here are the relevant findings form the one member panel: “Complainant WowWe, Inc. owns U.S. Trademark Registration No. 4057342 for the mark WOWWE, as used in connection with the “provisioning of video conference services, electronic mail services, and video messaging services”. The registration issued on November 15, 2011, based on an application that was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark ... read more ...
 
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Misguided UDRP complainant #3,267 - Guy starts company in 2011, files UDRP against domain registered in 1999. Sigh. Another day, another completely baseless UDRP. This one comes courtesy of WowWe, Inc., which was represented by the law firm Lewis Barnes. WowWe began using its mark in 2011. The owner of WowWe.com registered the domain name in 1999. Yet, amazingly, WowWe argued that the disputed domain name was registered for the purpose of selling the domain name registration to it for valuable consideration ... read more ...
 
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Aptus Tech nailed for perplexing to steal domain name from Frank Schilling - Panel determines that Aptus Tech engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. Last month I asked why people didn’t do a bit of research before filing a UDRP against Frank Schilling. The specific case that prompted my article was Klipz.com, which had just been filed. The decision is in, and it’s clear that, not only did the complainant not research who owned the domain, but he didn’t research much about UDRP, either. A three person National Arbitration Forum panel ... read more ...
Tue 23rd July 2013
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New Jersey Loses Again: UDRP Panel Says They Don’t Even Have Rights to GardenStateParkway.com & NjTurk - The New Jersey Turnpike Authority just lost a UDRP on the domain names GardenStateParkway.com and NYturnpike.com because the panelist found the Authority did not have “common law rights” to the terms Garden State Parkway or  and NJ Turnpike and for some reason the state didn’t apply for a trademark on either roadway until 2001 and 2011 respectively Yikes As an ex-New Yorker I can say few things in life give NYC people as much pleasure as seeing New Jersey lose,and before you  feel to bad ... read more ...
 
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Short & Sweet D1 Sports Loses UDRP on D1Sports.com Since TM Came 3 Years After Domain - D1 Sports Holdings, LLC just lost a UDRP on D1sports.com Simply stated the trademark holder didn’t get their TM until 2004, the domain name was registered in 2001. As it should have been, game over. Here is the relevant facts and finding from the one member panel: Complainant owns trademark registrations for DI, the earliest being registration number 2,877,559, whose registration certificate recites a first use date of March 1, 2003, filing date of August 18, 2003, and a registration date of August ... read more ...
 
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Back To The Future: UDRP Filed On GongShow.com - Long before American Idol, and America’s Got Talent, there was The Gong Show. The last time original episode on of the Gong show appeared on Network Television it was 1989,  well before the Internet, and well before the 1st domain name was registered. Today an UDRP was filed on the domain name  GongShow.com. The domain name GongShow.com has an  original registration date of October 7th 1999. The domain is currently under privacy at domain.com but was owned as recently as 2012 by a Brian Gong ... read more ...
 
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True Religion seeks improved domain name by WIPO action - Company files complaint for domain name TrueReligion.com Publicly traded True Religion (NASDAQ: TRLG), maker of premium denim products, has a really long domain name: TrueReligionBrandJeans.com. Without doubt, a lot of fans of the brand type in TrueReligion.com when trying to find its website. So the company has filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization to try to get the domain name TrueReligion.com. TrueReligion.com was registered back in 1998. It’s ... read more ...
 
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It’s not unequivocally Walmart: Walmart goes after union’s satire site - Retailer files complaint to take over domain names used for parody site. Walmart has filed a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) case with World Intellectual Property Organization against domain names registered by United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. The dispute seeks to take down the web site ReallyWalmart.org and the associated domain names ReallyWalmart.com/.net/.info. ReallyWalmart.org is a self-described parody site set up ... read more ...
Mon 22nd July 2013
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Fox Sports 1 Network Launches Next Month; Files UDRP Seeking 22 Domains Including Foxsports1.Com/.Tv - Fox Sports is launching a new sports network called Fox Sports 1 next month and today Fox filed a UDRP seeking control over 22 domain names, including FoxSports1.com and FoxSports1.Tv as well as FoxSportsone.com and FoxSportsone.tv. The UDRP was filed with the National Arbitration Forum and was assigned case number 1509782. Fox  has huge plans for Fox Sports 1 so the move is not unexpected as it is believed to be the first real competition to ESPN. In case Fox Sports 1 grows into numerious channels, ... read more ...
 
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14 Year Old Domain Wala.com Saved In UDRP Desipte Trademarks & A $5 Million Dollar Price Tag - A three member UDRP panel just rejected the attempt of WALA-Heilmittel GmbH of Bad Boll, Germany, to grab the domain name Wala.com This is another UDRP with an interesting set of facts which was first registered in 1999 and for a time had on its homepage a message that the domain was for sale for $5,000,000. Here are the revelant facts and findings by the three member panel: The Complainant is incorporated in Germany. Since the 1930s, it has developed, produced and marketed natural and homeopathic ... read more ...
Sun 21st July 2013
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Apple Files 2 UDRP Seeking 28 Domains Including FindMyiPad.com & Macbook7.com - Apple Computers filed two UDRP’s today seeking 28 domain names in total with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Some of the domain names sort are typo’s like apole.com,appestore.com, applesore.com, applestpre.com, applestroe.com and appllestore.com while others are product domains or variations on of Apple’s products like ipodtouch5.com, FindMyiPad.com Macbook7.com The domain names listed in the first UDRP with case number D2013-1313 appear to have different owners. All the ... read more ...
Sat 20th July 2013
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The ICA Forces ICANN To Issue A “Status Report on UDRP/URS Providers & Uniformity of Process” - ICANN issued a Status Report on UDRP Providers and Uniformity of Process, last night and the timing of it makes it look as a direct result of the criticism of Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) made public during the ICANN meeting that concluded on Thursday. First for the report, then some comments will follow: “”Issues relating to Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”) and uniformity of providers started to arise within ICANN in 2010. Commenters raised ... read more ...
Fri 19th July 2013
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Shocker? Publisher Of Vogue Loses UDRP ON The Domain Name VogueFashionModels.com - In one of the more interesting UDRP decision of the year the publisher of Vogue Magazine, Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. of New York, lost a UDRP on the domain VogueFashionModels.com which is owned by  Premier Models International Inc of New York. The three member UDRP had a split decision with two panelist voting to deny the  complaint and one voting to transfer the domain to the trademark holder. Here is the kicker the Domain holder didn’t even respond to the complaint. Not only did the dissenting ... read more ...
 
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After Losing UDRP For WIIU.com, Nintendo Allows Domain Like Wiisport.com GamesforWii.com To Drop - After losing a well publicized UDRP decision on WiiU.com, Nintendo allowed other bang on Wii domain names to drop this week only to sit by and watch them be re-registered by companies other than Nintendo. We have pointed this corporate mentality many times before, one in which company’s are willing to spend thousands of dollars in costs and fees to file UDRP’s to attempt to gain control of domains while sitting back watching equally as good or better trademark infringing domains to simply drop. Just ... read more ...
Thu 18th July 2013
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Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Loses UDRP On TracyAnderson.com - Tracy Anderson Mind and Body LLC of Studio City, California, just won a UDRP against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings on the domain name tracyanderson.com This marked the 6th UDRP in a row that Domain Asset Holdings has lost. According to the UDRP, Tracy Anderson, is a professional trainer and creator of diet regimes and compilations of fitness training systems, techniques and methods, holds United States trademark registration for standard-character marks based on Tracy Anderson’s personal ... read more ...
Wed 17th July 2013
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UDRP Filed Against 16 Year Old Johnsons.com By Johnson & Johnson -   The global brand company Johnson and Johnson just filed a UDRP against the domain name Johnsons.com Johnsons.com is owned by Widome Design of Potomac, Maryland. The domain has been owned by the company or its principal since at least 2001 according to DomainTools.com As you can see from above according to Screenshots.com as of the last archived record it had, Johnsons.com was parked with results for “Johnson Baby Products” showing as the top link. As a domainer in my mind its one of the rare ... read more ...
 
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[Updated] After 10 years, Johnson & Johnson goes after Johnsons.com domain name again - A decade after filing a UDRP for Johnsons.com, Johnson Johnson files another UDRP. [Updated]Johnson Johnson has filed a second UDRP for the domain name Johnsons.com, which was registered way back in 1997. [Update] This is not the first time Johnson Johnson has gone after the domain name. It filed a UDRP in 2003 and lost on the grounds that the domain name was not registered in bad faith. Although technically the name of the registrant has changed since early on, ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
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9 Year Old Domain Rive.com Saved in UDRP; TM Holder: Domainer Is a CyberSquatter “He Owns At Least 25 Domains” - Rive, LLC lost its bid to take away the domain name Rive.com from the domain owner who registered it back in 2004, based on a trademark registered with the USPTO,  on August 23, 2011 The Complainant argued that the domain owner registered and used the domain name in bad faith, “because Respondent attempted to sell the domain name for $45,500, fails to make an active use of the domain name, and owns at  least 25 domain names that demonstrate Respondent is a cybersquatter”. Here are the relevant ... read more ...
 
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AspenHeights.com Saved In UDRP But No RDNH Because of Non-Response to Emails - BRG Partners, LP (“Complainant”), lost its attempt to take the domain AspenHeights.com away from Wild Escape Theme Park who was represented by Traverse Legal. However the panel found the lack of response to the Complainant’s emails  was somehow fatal to a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH). The Complainant had a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”)  for ASPEN HEIGHTS, was filed Mar. 18, 2011, and registered Oct. 11, 2011, the domain name ... read more ...
 
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Slam Dunk: GoodTherapy.org Loses UDRP To Grab GoodTherapy.com - Over a month ago we told you about the UDRP filed by GoodTherapy.org, LLC to grab the .com version of the domain. Tonight the UDRP decision is out GoodTherapy.org lost its attempt to grab the domain GoodTherapy.com, without the domain owner even filing a response. Although the .Org domain holder had a registered trademark with the USPTO, the trademark wasn’t registered until January 9, 2007 while the domain name GoodTherapy.com was registered on November 29, 2003 and the panel found that the complainant ... read more ...
Mon 15th July 2013
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Oversee.net Loses UDRP On OnlineBacarrat.com - Oversee Domain Management, LLC,  just lost a UDRP on the domain name OnlineBacarrat.com to  Baccarat SA of Baccarat, France The domain name OnlineBacarrat.com was registered on June 12, 2012 I have no idea of why Oversee would register this domain or pay for a three member panel to try to save it. The domain is a typo of the casino game Baccarat The domain is also a typo of the famous french glass maker Baccarat. The domain was parked but the domain was inactivated after the UDRP was filed which ... read more ...