Tag Archives: UDRP

Fri 8th June 2012
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Republican Jack Abramoff Files UDRP On His Matching Domain, JackAbramoff.com Owned By The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Republican Jack Abramoff has just filed a  UDRP On His Matching Domain name, JackAbramoff.com which is Owned By The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Jack Abramoff, has had a colorful past and his story is the subject of a movie Casino Jack. The domain JackAbramoff.com, actually forwards to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee site at  dccc.org/pages/JackAbramoff. The site has on the front page: “””Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a key player in convicted ... read more ...
 
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Instrumentation Northwest should ask the counsel for the income back - It just wasted money filing a frivolous complaint over INW.com. The results are in on Instrumentation Northwest’s case against Nat Cohen’s Telepathy for the domain INW.com. No surprise here. With the help of domain attorney Ari Goldberger, Telepathy won the case. But the complainant should really ask its lawyer to give back whatever he or she charged to represent it. This case was dead from the beginning, and any good lawyer would have told their client this. ... read more ...
Thu 7th June 2012
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UDRP Winners: The Kentucky Derby, Red Bull, Jay-Z, Apple, Google, McDonald’s, Holiday Inn & Gucci - In a bunch of UDRP cases either decided, withdrawn or terminated in the past few days, The Kentucky Derby, Red Bull, Jay-Z, Apple, Google, McDonald’s, Swarovski, Dolce Gabbana, TD Bank, Holiday Inn, Betsey Johnson, DrMarten, Fandango Gucci all got domain names awarded to them. KentuckyDerby.info was awarded to Churchill Downs Incorporated (case # D2012-0769) BetseyJohnson-outlet.com was awarded to the clothing designer’s company. (case # D2012-0755) RedBullFacts.com was awarded to Red Bull. ... read more ...
 
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Apple wins aplestore.com, a initial UDRP feat of a year - Apple wins its first domain arbitration case of the year. Apple has won a dispute over the domain name aplestore.com as a World Intellectual Property Organization panel ordered the domain name transferred to the iPhone maker. The typo of AppleStore.com was registered to a man in Poland and forwarded to a parked page full of ads. This is the first case Apple has won under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) this year. But several other cases were ... read more ...
Wed 6th June 2012
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An engaging UDRP preference opposite a critique site - Dar Al-Arkan gets a domain, but doesn’t solve its problem. So-called gripe sites, which are critical of a company or person, are handled differently by various UDRP panels. A recent case brought by Saudi Arabia’s Dar Al-Arkan Real Estate Development Company is a case in point. Dar Al-Arkan filed the complaint against the owner of daralarkan-crisis.com. The owner of the site makes a number of allegations against the company and publishes what Dar Al-Arkan says ... read more ...
Tue 5th June 2012
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Natura.TV Beats Back UDRP Challenge - A one person panel has just denied A UDRP on the domain name Natura.tv  (Nature in Spanish) The Complaint was brought by Natura Cosméticos S/A, which has a trademark on the term Natura. The panel seemed to give a lot of weight to the fact that the domain name was parked by Sedo as a third party, whereby the owner didn’t seem to share any revenue from the parking revenue. Also the panel noted that the domain has been owned for more than a decade by the current owner. Here are the relevant facts ... read more ...
Mon 4th June 2012
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Wow: new TLD conflict already hits UDRP - Complaint filed against a .med backer. Here’s an interesting UDRP case that attacks an applicant for the .med top domain name. The domains in this dispute are aboutdotmed.com, supportdotmed.com, and thedotmed.com. The complaint was filed by DotMed.com, Inc. I wrote about DotMed.com back in January when I revealed 115 trademark applications for potential top level domains. The respondent is HEXAP, which is working with AFNIC to secure the .med domain name. What ... read more ...
 
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It’s Craig Newmark vs. “Craig Solomon” in this humorous domain dispute - CraigsList or CraigsLists? Craigslist has filed a domain name dispute against the owner of CraigsLists.com (notice the extra ‘s’), a site purportedly run by one Craig Solomon. Whereas Craig Newmark’s Craigslist offers classified ads, Craig Solomon’s CraigsLists.com says: “To see Craig Solomon’s lists of the best online resources, just click on the links below. My information is updated daily to give you the best results possible. Yours truly, Craig” But ... read more ...
Sat 2nd June 2012
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EZQ.com Gets Hit With UDRP; Is This Another Domain Owner Trying To Get A Stolen Domain Back? - A UDRP has just been filed on the three letter domain name EZQ.com EZQ.com is owned by someone in China. The whois only pulls up a name of the registrant: “baorui” The domain is currently being forwarded to another domain nnol.com Using domain tools I see that the current domain registrant is just listed with a vague address in China and that the domain moved over to the current owner in March. The previous owner was  EZQuest, Inc of  Anaheim, California (Hence the EZQ) who seemed to have  ... read more ...
Thu 31st May 2012
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Two Different UDRP’s, Two Different Results; With Same Complainant & Same Domain Holder: Bloomberg - Well another interesting day in UDRP world were there are two separate UDRP action both brought by Bloomberg Finance L.P. owner of Bloomberg.com, against another company  named Bloomberg which is located in India. The 1st UDRP was on the domain bloombergworldwide.com. In that case the one man panel found that both parties had trademark claims to the term “Bloomberg” and therefore the case was outside of a UDRP and should be heard in a court. The second one person panel came to a split decision ... read more ...
 
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College Hunks and Strong Students quarrel in justice after UDRP - A muscular lawsuit. This lawsuit creates and amusing visual. Strong Students Moving, Inc. has sued (pdf) College Hunks Hauling Junk after the former lost a domain to the latter through a UDRP case. Shaun Robinson of Strong Students Moving, Inc. alleges that he registered the domain name collegehunksmoving.com while he was negotiating with College Hunks Hauling Junk to form a new business venture. The business deal didn’t go through, and earlier this year College ... read more ...
Wed 30th May 2012
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Berryhill Get’s A Finding Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Defending A UDRP On Elk.com - ELK Accesories Pty Ltd. of Preston, Australia brought a UDRP against Elk.com of California, on the domain name Elk.com Elk.com was represented by John Berryhill, Esq. Not only did the three member panel find in favor of the domain holder, the domain holder got a rare finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) against the complainant. Even better, not only did the panel find RDNH, its gave the complainant and its counsel a pretty good tongue lashing in its comments. Its turning out to be a very ... read more ...
 
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Francois Carrillo Wins UDRP On ZUT.com - Francois Carrillo just defended a UDRP brought by Interbasic Holding S.A on the domain name ZUT.com Francois was represented by Zak Muscovitch of The Muscovitch Law Firm, Canada. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel: “The Complainant is the owner of the following trademarks: (i)          ZUT, International Trade Mark No. 701302 (registered October 20, 1998); (ii)        ZUT, U.S. Trade Mark No. 2881956 (filed October 30, 1999 and registered September ... read more ...
 
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John Berryhill’s Farmville gets bigger with Elk.com victory - Pigs, ants, elephants, and elk. Domain name attorney John Berryhill has an animal fetish. When it comes to UDRPs, anyway. Berryhill has successfully defended Pig.com, Ant.com, and Elephant.com. Now you can add Elk.com to that list. I first wrote about this nonsense case back in March. Now the decision has been handed down in favor of the domain owner — with a finding of reverse domain name hijacking. The case was brought by is ELK Accesories Pty Ltd., which has ... read more ...
Tue 29th May 2012
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Bad Complaint Allows CraftmaticBeds.org To Stay With Domain Owner Who Didn’t Even Respond - A one member panel just denied the UDRP complaint of  Elevation Bed, LLC,  on the domain name Craftmaticbeds.org If you watch any television at all over the last many years you have undoubtedly seen ads for Craftmatic beds. The complainant has a trademark for Craftmatic since 1985 and they make beds so this should have been a no-brainier decision in favor of the complainant. Especially when the domain holder didn’t even respond to the complaint. However the panel found that: “”Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Arbitration association loses domain settlement case - JAMS can’t have domain name, WIPO rules. Oh, the irony. An arbitration company has lost a UDRP arbitration case. JAMS, a.k.a. Jams/Endispute, LLC filed an arbitration case with World Intellectual Property Organization over the domain name jamsarbitration.com. The registrant of the domain was upset over a decision JAMS came to in a case and created the web site to voice his opinion on the matter. He didn’t respond to the complaint, but wrote to WIPO arguing that ... read more ...
Thu 24th May 2012
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LegalSupply.com Lost To eLegalSupply.com: “The Transfer Of A Domain Is Equivalent To A New Registration” - A few weeks ago told you about a UDRP had been filed on the domain name legalsupply.com. At the time there was no indication who filed the UDRP seeking control of the domain, but the decision has just been issued and the complainant is  eLegalsupply.com, LLC. And guess what? eLegalSupply.com just took the generic domain name LegalSupply.com away from the domain holder based off a Trademark for eLEGALSUPPLY.COM which was filed years after the original registration. Moreover in the wild, wild west ... read more ...
 
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GossipGirl.com A Domain Purchased At A Drop Auction In Febuary For $6K, Is Lost In A UDRP - The domain GossipGirl.com dropped in February of this year and went to a drop auction where it eventually sold for and even $6,000. Today a UDRP panel awarded the domain to the complainant Alloy Entertainment LLC the producer of the hit TV show GossipGirl.com It would have been interesting to see what would have happened had the buyer put up a TMZ or Perez Hilton type of Gossip site but unfortunately it went to a parked page (according to Screenshots). Although it did have any keyword in the ad copy ... read more ...
Wed 23rd May 2012
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Generic IDN Gets Hit With A UDRP: Cabañas.com - With over 44,000,000 reference in Google the term cabañas.com seems pretty generic. Yet A URDP has been filed over the IDN by Marco Rafael Sanfilippo. I found that the complainant owns the domain name cabanias.com and the ownership of that domain could be the basis for the complaint. Domain name: cabanias.com Registrant Contact: Marco Rafael Sanfilippo If you check out Mr. Snaflippo’s site you will see on the top left he uses the words cabanias.com, cabañas.com interchangeably The domain ... read more ...
Mon 21st May 2012
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Berryhill Beats Back UDRP On The Dictionary Word Masai.com - A three member UDRP panel had held in favor of the domain holder on the domain name Masai.com which was represented by John Berryhill. The complaint was brought by Masai Clothing Company of Copenhagen, Denmark which holds several community trademarks from “several European countries”  on the term Masai. Masai is also a dictionary word for the name of an African Tribe. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the panel: The domain name was originally registered on May 15, 2000. It currently ... read more ...
 
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Domain registrar offers UDRP insurance - Registration service offers free insurance against expensive but unfounded UDRP filings. Francois Carrillo, the guy behind Domaining.com, has launched a new domain registrar (an eNom reseller) with an innovative twist: “UDRP insurance”. Basically, if you’re hit with a UDRP on one of your domains registered at DONA.com then you’ll get assistance with finding a domain attorney. Selected domain attorneys offer discounted rates to DONA customers. And if you successfully ... read more ...
 
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How NOT to name your association and secure your domain - When you know it’s time to select a different company name… A Colorado company just lost a UDRP for Qwizzle.com, and it’s a great example of botched company naming. The company, Qwizzle, LLC, knew that Qwizzle.com was taken when it came up with its name. It tried to contact the owner of Qwizzle.com but had no luck. It still decided to launch its business as Qwizzle but then filed a UDRP to try to get the domain name. It lost the UDRP because Qwizzle.com was ... read more ...
 
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Baylor Sucks (again) with BaylorSucks.com - Baylor University gets “sucks” domain back after letting it expire. It’s pretty easy to sit down here in Austin and say that Baylor sucks. You can get on its case for yanking a gay student’s scholarship. And for waiting until the 90s to lift a ban on dancing on campus. There’s also that little fact that the school is in Waco. (The one thing we can’t do any more is say that its sports programs suck.) But now the university is claiming a bit of suckiness ... read more ...
Fri 18th May 2012
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From a counsel UDRP mistakes file… - Don’t forget to prove earlier rights if you claim them. Publisher Hidden Values has lost a dispute over the domain name TriangleKidsDirectory.com. Hidden Values publishes the Kids’ Directory. It also has a registered trademark for KID’S DIRECTORY. It’s an admittedly weak mark. It’s even a concurrent use registration that is limited in geographic scope. But, the registrant of the domain name was a former licensee of Kids Directory and published the directory ... read more ...
Thu 17th May 2012
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AriGoldberger Beats Back UDRP on Stage.com, Despite TM, Being Parked & Being Offered For Sale - AriGoldberger just successfully defended a UDRP on the domain name Stage.com, from a complaint brought by Specialty Retailers, Inc.  which owned a trademark on the term “Stage”, despite the fact that the domain name was parked and that the domain holder offered to sell the domain to the Complainant for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here are the relevant facts and finding by the TWO member panel: “Complainant has used the STAGE mark in commerce since 1969 and has acquired a trademark registration ... read more ...