Tag Archives: UDRP

Fri 26th April 2013
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3 Strikes & Your Out: Avaya Inc. Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Avaya Inc. a company with 17,500 employees worldwide, was found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in its attempted theft of the domain name Avayo.net The panel took into account two other losing UDRP decisions filed by the company, in making its finding of (RDNH) although those panels did not find RDNH. The story was first reported yesterday by onlinedomain.com, whose author Konstantinos Zournas represented the Domain Holder in the proceeding. Its good to see that a panel is finally ... read more ...
Wed 24th April 2013
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Frank Schillings Name Administration Hit With UDRP On WalkTheWalk.com - A UDRP has just been filed against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration on the domain name WalkTheWalk.com. The company filing the complaint is Walk the Walk Worldwide, whose site is at WalkTheWalk.org According to the organization’s site it operates a charity since 1998 centered in the UK. Walk the Walk Worldwide has two trademark registered with the USPTO for walk the walk, one  in September 2009 filed in 2007 and one registered in 2004 which was filed in 2001. Of course Walk the Walk is ... read more ...
 
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Charity files UDRP over Frank Schilling’s WalkTheWalk.com domain - Group owns .org version of domain name. The charity that owns WalkTheWalk.org has filed a UDRP against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc. for the domain name WalkTheWalk.com. Walk the Walk Worldwide raises money to raise awareness about breast cancer. It certainly has an attention-grabbing approach: it gets women to walk marathons in bras to raise money. The United Kingdom charity has a couple trademarks for the term, including for a logo and simply “walk ... read more ...
Tue 23rd April 2013
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Tencent Owner Of QQ.com Loses UDRP Grab For TencentGames.com - Tencent Holdings Limited just lost its attempt to grab the domain name tencentgames.com in a UDRP and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Bottom line the panel found the complainant trademark was effective in 2010 and the domain name registered in 2009:   Here are the relevant facts and findings by a one member panel: “The Complainant is a Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide mass media, entertainment, Internet and mobile phone value-added services and operate online ... read more ...
 
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After 8 Years TickerNetwork.com Lost In UDRP - Ticket Software, LLC of South Windsor, Connecticut, just got the domain name TickerNetwork.com in a UDRP based off a trademark for the term Ticket Network. Here are the relevant facts and findings of the one member panel: “The Complainant hosts an online marketplace for event tickets to concert, sport, and theater events in the United States of America (U.S.) and globally. “Through its infrastructure, the Complainant connects buyers and sellers with ticket inventory listings to various events ... read more ...
 
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Domain settlement cases corner adult somewhat in 2012 - …but trail the growth in domain name registrations. National Arbitration Forum (NAF) has released its official numbers for 2012 UDRP cases. Combined with World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) results, the number of UDRP cases filed last year appears to have edged up slightly. NAF reported a total of 2,060 cases for 2012 last year, which was 22 fewer than in 2011. WIPO earlier reported 2,884 cases, up from 2,764 in 2011. Between the two biggest UDRP ... read more ...
 
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DomainSkate offers templated UDRP complaints for $399 - Low cost service prepares UDRP filing to submit to National Arbitration Forum. DomainSkate lets anyone create a UDRP complaint. Users would be wise to have the complaint reviewed by an attorney before submitting it.The biggest cost of filing or responding to a UDRP isn’t paying fees to National Arbitration Forum or WIPO. It’s typically the lawyer’s fees that add up to the most. DomainSkate aims to change that by offering a low cost way to compile the necessary ... read more ...
 
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Internet Giant TenCent bumbles domain dispute - Company drops ball in UDRP submission. It’s possible you’ve never heard of TenCent. I hadn’t heard of it until reading The Economist’s recent spread on the internet in China. But it’s big in China. Huge. With a market cap of $60 billion (U.S.), it’s right up there with Facebook in terms of valuation. Yet TenCent Holdings failed to win the domain name TenCentGames.com in a UDRP, despite the domain holder not responding to the complaint. TenCent successfully ... read more ...
Mon 22nd April 2013
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Yikes! No consternation this association wanted a improved domain - Company that filed UDRP uses a truly awful domain name. Often times a company files a UDRP because they’re using an inferior domain to the one they want. For example, cases are filed in which the complainant owns a .tv or .net domain and the respondent owns the .com. Of course, the reason the complainant originally registered the other domain was because the .com was already taken. That’s the case with a just-decided case for GameBreaker.com. The domain owner ... read more ...
Sat 20th April 2013
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ICANN selects second URS provider - Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre second to sign up with ICANN for rapid domain suspension system. ICANN has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) to be a provider under Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS). URS is sort quick and less expensive version of UDRP in which a winning complainant does not get control of the infringing domain name but it is taken offline. URS only applies to the new top level ... read more ...
Fri 19th April 2013
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Organizing for Action wasn’t “organized” for the online strategy - Non-profit failed to secure domain names prior to announcing plans. Barrack Obama’s campaigns have been praised for their use of the internet to rally the troops. Which is why a domain name screwup by the non-profit successor to his re-election campaign and Organizing for America is rather surprising. On January 18 First Lady Michelle Obama and Jim Messina announced Organizing for Action, a non-profit community organizer that hopes to rally behind many of Obama’s ... read more ...
Wed 17th April 2013
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EasyBook.com Registered in 1996 Saved In UDRP - In an extremely short, lazy opinion, a one member UDRP panel rejected the claim of Alpitour S.p.A. of Torino, Italy who tried to grab the generic domain EasyBook.com,  but failed to address the issue of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Here are the relevant facts and findings: The complainant owns an “Italian figurative EASY BOOK trademark, used in connection with travel services, registered in 1987″ “The disputed domain name was registered on November 6, 1996, and is used by Respondent in connection ... read more ...
Tue 16th April 2013
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UDRP Tells Alcohol Monitoring System, Inc To Scram.com - A one person UDRP panel just denied the Alcohol Monitoring System, Inc attempted grab of the generic domain name Scram.com While the Complainant owned registered Trademarks for  SCRAM and SCRAMx with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Reg. No. 2,902,677), registered November 16, 2004 (“the Trademark”) the panel found that the term was generic and the domain holder didn’t act in bad faith in registering the domain name. The domain name was acquired by the domain holder for $6,000 ... read more ...
 
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After 5 Wins, A UDRP Panelist Denies Claim of TM For Novartis AG - The global drug company Novartis AG just lost a UDRP on the domain name QuickDailies.com based off a trademark for the term “Dailies”. Apparently the company beliefs its own any domain name that has the word “dailies” in it and as silly as it sounds several UDRP panels have transferred domains names to Novartis AG based on the same claim and the same trademark. Since 2012, the company has won 5 UDRP’s on domain names including the term Dailies: the-best-dailies.info instantdailies.com usadailies.com thedailies.com dailies.asia However ... read more ...
Mon 15th April 2013
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Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Loses UDRP On UniversalAssistance.com - Universal Assistance S.A. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, just won a UDRP against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings, LLC on the domain name UniversalAssistance.com The Complainant had a trademark on the term, Universal Assistance since 1994 but the panel seemed to be willing to give them a common law right to the term even if they didn’t have the trademark. The company official site was universal-assistance.com which they registered in 2004. Mike company registered the domain subject to the UDRP ... read more ...
 
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Google beats Google in UDRP - Company wins case against spoofer. It’s pretty easy to spoof someone else in a whois record, and a recent UDRP is a case in point. Officially, Google Inc. prevailed over Google Inc. in a UDRP for the domain GoogleDNSService.com. When you first look at the whois record for this domain you might assume it’s owned by Google: The name, phone, and address are all those of Google. But you’ll notice that the email address, dns-admin@googlednsservice.com, differs from ... read more ...
Sun 14th April 2013
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5 Arbitration Institutes Team Up To File An UDRP For 17 Domains - Well here is something you don’t see everyday 5 Arbitration Institutes have jointly filed one UDRP seeking 17 domain names which seem to be mainly comprised of the name of the association with the word arbitration added. These are exactly the types of domain names we call trademark holders and other out on for not registering years ago. Most of the domains were registered on May 10, 2010 meaning they were all available to be registered. The 5 Arbitration Institutes filing the UDRP are: American ... read more ...
Thu 11th April 2013
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Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Loses 21 Facebook Domains In One UDRP - Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings of Potomac, Maryland just lost a UDRP to Facebook, Inc on 21 domain names which it didn’t even respond to The domain at issue were: aboutfacebook.com facebookbabes.com facebookcheats.com facebookclub.com facebookdevelopment.com facebookfest.com facebookintegration.com facebookjournal.com facebookking.com facebookland.com facebooksafety.com facebookstudio.com facebookstuff.com freefacebookapps.com friendsonfacebook.com fundraisingwithfacebook.com joinusonfacebook.com killfacebook.com moneyfromfacebook.com moneywithfacebook.com newfacebookapplication.com “The ... read more ...
Wed 10th April 2013
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Purva.com Bought In May 2012 Saved in UDRP: Godaddy Placeholder May Have Saved It - The Complainant is Puravankara Projects Limited of Bangalore, Karnataka, India,  just lost a UDRP on the domain name purva.com which turns out to be a pretty interesting case with a long fact pattern. The domain was orinally owned by the Complaintant who lost it many years ago do to non-renew it appears. The domain was acquired by the domain holder in May 2012 Namejet.com auction and wound up going to a Godaddy placeholder around the time the UDRP was filed. Compared to yesterday’s decision on ... read more ...
Tue 9th April 2013
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NiceCar.com Owned For 13 Years Lost in Horrible UDRP Decision - In another horribly lazy opinion, the domain name NiceCar.com was just awarded to NICE CAR, INC. by a one member UDRP panelist Sandra J. Franklin to a trademark holder. Although the complainant  had a federal trademark it was only registered in 2007 while the domain holder owned the domain for 13 years. The panelist which never said one word about the generic nature of the term, Nice Car,  awarded the domain based on the finding that the “Complainant has established secondary meaning in the NICE ... read more ...
 
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Monaco Wins Rights To MonteCarloVodka.com In UDRP - In January we told you that  the Government of Monaco, officially; Gouvernement de la Principauté de Monaco SAM Marques de l’Etat de Monaco filed a UDRP against the domain name MonteCarloVodka.com which is not only a domain name but a brand of Vodka. Monaco wasn’t happy about their name being put on a Vodka, the logo on the bottle which they said closely resembled the coat of arms of the Principality of Monaco, all without their permission and to make matters worse the Vodka was produced not ... read more ...
Mon 8th April 2013
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Horizon Publishing Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On Opulence.com - Horizon Publishing, LLC which is based in Ft Lauderdale, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Opulence.com How bad was Horizon’s case? Consider that the domain holder didn’t even file a response and the panel on its own initiative found RDNH. Here is what the one member panel Paul M. DeCicco, said in part on the issue of RDNH: “In bringing its Complaint and as discussed above, Complainant overtly disregards facts and law which should have been ... read more ...
 
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One Week After Launch The First UDRP For A .PW Is Filed By Morgan Stanley - Less than two weeks after the .PW registry went live for domain name registrations,  the first UDRP on a .Pw has been filed. The .PW Registry went live on March 25th. A UDRP complaint was filed with the National Arbitration Forum by Morgan Stanley over the domain name morganstanley.pw The domain name is not currently resolving. Of course the question I have is if Morgan Stanley didn’t elect to pay the Sunrise fee for a .PW domain name why are they willing to pay many times the cost just a few ... read more ...
 
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Ontario Court Rules In Favor Of George Kirikos On Pupa.com & Awards $4,500 In Fees - George Kirikos company, Leap Of Faith Financial Services,  (Leap) just won a declaratory judgement that is was the lawful owner of the domain name Pupa.com and was awarded its court costs, all arising out of a UDRP filed last year by  the Italian cosmetics company Micys. (not Macys). In June of last year we told  you that a UDRP was filed on the domain name Pupa.com, owned by frequent commentator to TheDomains.com, George Kirikos company Leap. George filed a lawsuit in Ontario Superior Court of ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: WIPO Awards Twitter The Domain Name Twitter.org - A few days ago we let you know that Twitter won the rights to the domain name Twitter.org by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) The domain name was held under privacy at Moniker.com The domain name has an original registration date of October 2005. The domain name transferred to privacy into privacy in late  2011. The decision has now been issued. The case was a slam dunk with the domain holder failing to file an answer the panel found that the  “domain name was registered well ... read more ...