Tag Archives: UDRP

Fri 25th September 2015
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In a Rare Loss; Philip Morris Loses UDRP On New gTLD Domain Marlboro.Party - Philip Morris just lost a UDRP on the new gTLD domain name marlboro.party The disputed domain name was registered on February 18, 2015 and the domain owner represented himself in the suit and claimed he registered this domain and hundreds of other as a Geographic domain such as Marlboro, New jersey rather than anything to do with the cigarette brand. Here are the highlights: The Complainant contends that the Respondent has registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith with full knowledge ... read more ...
Thu 24th September 2015
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Male encouragement association nailed for RDNH over Maximize.com - Nucell, LLC, seller of a “male enhancement” product, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Maximize.com A three person Czech Arbitration Court panel wrote a scathing finding of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH), and it was warranted. The owner of the domain name bought it in 2008 for $10,000. The complainant, which may not have been an active company at the time, started harassing the domain name owner a few years later, according to the decision. It doesn’t ... read more ...
 
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The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation Files 7 Separate UDRP - The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation has filed 7 separate UDRP’s this year the most recent one was filed yesterday. The company owns and operate its website under the domain name BrooklynBrewery.com The company has a Federally Registered Trademark for the term “Brooklyn Brewery”     I searched the USPTO and did not find any trademark for the term Brooklyn Beer: Here are 5 pending domain names on which The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation has filed UDRP on: BrooklynBeer.com BrooklynBeers.com BrooklynAle.com BrooklynBrew.com BrooklynBrews.com The ... read more ...
Wed 23rd September 2015
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An engaging craziness in UDRP rulings - This panelist has a different standard for the first element of UDRP. This morning I was reading the UDRP decision for CallFinder.com. Panelist David Einhorn got the answer correct — the domain name shouldn’t have been transferred to a company that got a trademark for CallFinder many years after the domain name was registered. But I was surprised to see that Einhorn found that 800 Response Marketing, LLC failed to prove the first prong of the UDRP. The first prong basically says that the domain ... read more ...
 
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UDRP row doesn't give behind OnlineMBA.com, stolen from Moniker - Company says domain name was stolen from its Moniker account, but UDRP panel determines it didn’t prove trademark rights. An Austin company that once owned OnlineMBA.com has failed to recover the allegedly stolen domain name through a UDRP. Mascot Media Circle, LLC has owned the domain name since 2010. This summer it realized it was no longer in control of the domain name, and alleges that it was stolen from its Moniker account. This sounds plausible, given the number of security issues discussion ... read more ...
Mon 21st September 2015
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UDRPSearch owners gets UDRP win - Company behind UDRP search site wins its on UDRP. Virtual Point, the company that runs UDRP site UDRPSearch.com, has successfully defended a UDRP for the domain name addicting-games.com. Complainant Defy Media runs the online games site AddictingGames.com. Its predecessor-in-interest registered the domain name in 2002; Virtual Point registered the hyphenated version in 2003. The case turned on the trademark dates for “Addicting Games”. Defy Mewdia argued that it was a popular site by the time ... read more ...
Wed 16th September 2015
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Nice Try But Givkwik Failes To Get GiveQuick.com in UDRP - Givkwik Inc.just lost its bid to grab the domain name givequick.com in a UDRP Nathalie Dreyfus was the sole panelist who found although givequick.com was confusingly similar to Complainant’s GIVKWIK IMPULSE PHILANTHROPY mark the domain holder did not act in bad faith in registering or using the domain that they bought from BuyDomains.com in April 2014. givequick.com was registered on February 13, 2009, and purchased by the domain holder form buydomains.com April 3, 2014. Here are the highlights: “Respondent ... read more ...
Tue 15th September 2015
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Panelist finds East End N.Y. Imports Inc. intent in retreat domain name hijacking - Company went after Modway.com domain name, which was registered well before it had trademark rights in the name. One of three panelists in a UDRP decision for Modway.com has determined that East End N.Y. Imports engaged in reverse domain name hijacking by bringing the case. The other two, while finding in the domain name owner’s favor, declined to find RDNH. It seems that the complainant’s saving grace for reverse domain name hijacking was that it managed to pull up a couple cases to back up ... read more ...
 
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Foundation Fitness Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Stages.com - Foundation Fitness LLC of Portland, Oregon, United States of America (“US”) represented by Dorsey Whitney, LLP, US was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Stages.com The domain holder was represented by ESQwire.com The three member panel of John Swinson, Timothy Casey and The Honorable Neil Brown Q.C. really hit the COmplaintnants hard on all fronts. The domain owner could have hoped for a better decision Great job by the folks at ESQwire.com Here are the highlights: The ... read more ...
 
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TSLA.com Lost In UDRP Decision Although Domain Holder Was Willing To Give It Up - Tesla Motors, Inc. just won the rights to the Domain name TSLA.com is a one member UDRP panel decision although it was willing to give up the domain name to Tesla. It’s a shame that the case had to go to a decision. “”Respondent, via its formal Response, consents to having the at-issue domain name transferred to Complainant.”” Many domainers have the opinion that they will always have the option of just giving a domain name to a trademark holder but this once again shows that is not always ... read more ...
 
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Foundation Fitness nailed for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Stages.com - Seller of Stages exercise bikes abused UDRP in effort to get Stages.com domain name. Portland, Oregon company Foundation Fitness engaged in reverse domain name hijacking for the domain name Stages.com, a World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled. The company sells stationary exercise bikes under the brand Stages Cycling. In this case, the registrant of the domain name bought it in the aftermarket in 2014. This was after trademarks were issued to the complainant. Still, the panel determined ... read more ...
Thu 10th September 2015
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Lawsuit filed after Materia.com UDRP, and it's an engaging case - Michele Dinoia has cybersquatted in the past, but was Materia.com different? Michele Dinoia has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against California company Materia, Inc., after Materia won a UDRP for Dinoia’s domain name Materia.com. The lawsuit seeks to stay the transfer and seeks a finding reverse domain name hijacking. National Arbitration panelist Richard DiSalle found in Materia, Inc’s favor in a UDRP decision dated August 20. He ordered Dinoia’s domain name registrar, Name.com, ... read more ...
Tue 8th September 2015
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ipaymentinc.com Found Guilt Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on A domain it used to possess iPayments.com - In what is a great case for al domain name holders iPayment, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, represented by Waller Lansden Dortch Davis, LLP, just got found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name ipayments.com The company who brought the complaint used to own the domain name and let the registration lapse which the three member panel found to be “inexcusable”: “The Complainant did previously register the disputed domain name, and was not prevented from doing ... read more ...
Fri 4th September 2015
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Owners of emazing.nl Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On emazing.com - Emazing B.V. of Baarn, Netherlands which owns and operate the website emazing.nl, represented by Van der Goen advocaten B.V., Netherlands has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name emazing.com The company that owns emazing.nl was first incorporated in 2000 the domain name emazing.com was transferred several times since its original registration in 2007 Here are the highlights of the one member panel of Matthew S. Harris: The Complainant is a company founded ... read more ...
 
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Emazing.nl nailed for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Web design firm in Netherlands is a reverse domain name hijacker. Web design firm Emazing B.V., which uses the domain name Emazing.nl, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Emazing.com. Amazingly, Emazing’s lawyers seem to have really shot themselves in the foot: they submitted a supplemental filing that was key to the RDNH finding. The owner of Emazing.com registered the domain name before the complainant had a trademark for Emazing. But Emazing.com ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2015
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UDRP Filed on Recently Sold $18,400 Three Letter Domain Name Zic.com - A UDRP (D2015-1566) has been filed to gain control of the 3 letter domain name Zic.com . The URDP was filed by the company SK Lubricants Americas, a subsidiary of SK Innovations on September 2, 2015. The domain name Zic.com was acquired during a Ha.com domain name auction in February 2015 for $18,400 USD. SK Lubricants Americas filed a trademark on December 22, 2003 for the term: Zic and the trademark has an active status for good and services: “Lubricating oil, all purpose spray type lubricants, ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
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Apple Inc. Registers .org "News Publisher" Domains 87 Days AFTER Announcing Publicly - On June 8, 2015 Apple Inc. announced a new “News” app that will be included in the fall release of iOS 9, that is powered by Apple News Format™. Fast forward to today, September 2, 2015 and Apple Inc. registers the following domain names with MarkMonitor: AppleNewsFormat.org AppleNewsPublisher.org News-Publisher.org NewsPublisher.org All .org domain names. The domain name AppleNewsFormat.com was registered on the day of the announcement (June 8, 2015), but not by Apple Inc. According to whois ... read more ...
Tue 1st September 2015
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Kylie Jenner & Kendall Jenner Both Get Their Matching .Com Domains - Kylie Jenner, and Kendall Jenner just got control of their matching .Com domain names from a UDRP panel, kyliejenner.com and kendalljenner.com respectively Although the UDRP’s were filed separately for each domain and the owner of both domain names are different the UDRP panel of Tony Willoughby consolidated the cases at the Complainants request which is pretty unusual and there is a good discussion about the requirements for consolidating two separately filed UDRP’s The domain owners are both ... read more ...
Wed 26th August 2015
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Pop Artist, Songwriter, Producer & DJ Calvin Harris Files UDRP on CalvinHarris.com - British born music artist Calvin Harris has filed a UDRP on the domain name CalvinHarris.com Calvin Harris is a songwriter, record producer, remixer and DJ and his  second studio album, Ready for the Weekend, which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and earned a gold certification from the British Phonographic Industry within two months of release. Its lead single, “I’m Not Alone”, became Harris’s first number one on the UK Singles Chart. Calvin Harris holds the record for the ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2015
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The PGA Loses UDRP On The Domain PGAgolfpassport.com - A one member UDRP panel rejected the complaint of the The Professional Golfers’ Association of America of Florida on the domain name pgagolfpassport.com which was registered sometime in 1995 or 1997 Complainant is the largest golf association in the United States, and for decades has used in commerce the mark PGA and of course own domain PGA.com At the time the Complaint was filed, the Domain Name resolved to a website featuring the greeting “Welcome to the Golf Passport.” The “Golf Passport” ... read more ...
Mon 24th August 2015
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Khloe Kardashian gets her (domain) name - Khloe will get domain name registered shortly after her first TV appearance. TV celebrity Khloe Kardashian has won a cybersquatting dispute, and will soon by the proud owner of the KhloeKardashian.com domain name. Kardashian and her agents filed the case against the domain name with World Intellectual Property Organization nearly two months ago. The domain name did not resolve to a web page at the time, but it was parked prior to that. It was also listed for sale on GoDaddy, but the listing has been ... read more ...
Fri 21st August 2015
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Lawyer Gerald M. Levine Writes The Definitive Book on UDRP's - At well over 500 pages, Gerald M. Levine who is an attorney,  and sits on panels of neutral arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association for commercial and IP disputes, has written the definitive book on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, (UDRP). The book is entitled “Domain Name Arbitration: A Practical Guide to Asserting and Defending Claims of Cybersquatting Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy” Mr. Levine ” describes the book as an important, ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2015
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Philip Morris takes down dispute sites in messy cybersquatting decision - Tobacco company convinces arbitration panelist to hand over domain names used to criticize it. One of the gripe sites Philip Morris just took down.Philip Morris has won another cybersquatting complaint against a long time nemesis. The company convinced a single member National Arbitration Forum panelist that David Delman should hand over six domain names he used as gripe sites about smoking: philipmorris.website, philipmorrisviolations.website, philipmorriscigarettediseases.org, philipmorriscigaretteskill.com, ... read more ...
Wed 19th August 2015
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Me.TV Registered In 2005 Saved In UDRP Against TM Filed in 2011 But No RDNH - Weigel Broadcasting Co. of Chicago, Illinois just lost its bid to grab the domain name Me.Tv from Hot Media, Inc. of Kirkland, Washington The three member panel of Michael A. Albert, Michelle Brownlee and William R. Towns refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) even though the domain name was registered in 2005 and the trademark was not registered until 2011. Here are the highlights: Complainant owns the federally-registered trademark METV in the United States, which it uses in connection ... read more ...
Mon 17th August 2015
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Donald Trump May Own Over 3K Domains But Doesn't Own Trump.org & Isn't Happy About It - Several mainstream websites recently wrote about how many domain names the Trump Organization owns, including BusinessInsider.com that said  the Trump Organization owns 3,153 domain names. boingboing, weighted in  with a story entitled “Donald Trump owns vast numbers of web addresses”. Suntimes.com, published a story entitled “Donald Trump probably already owns your anti-Trump domain name” Probably is right! One domain name that was not mentioned in any of these stories is the domain name ... read more ...