Tag Archives: UDRP

Fri 27th April 2012
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On The Heals Of Yesterday’s Loss On Faci.com, BuyDomains Is Hit With Another UDRP On JoyfulEvents.com - Buydomains.com which just lost a UDRP on the domain name Faci.com yesterday, just got hit with another UDRP filing today. Today its another generic term at issue. The domain is JoyfulEvents.com, which is going to a parked page returning results for things like Weddings and Quinceanera Dresses. Although the complainant is not yet listed I did find a couple of live trademarks for the term “Joyful Events” filed by Joyful Events, LLC of Arizona. The Trademark was obtained in June 2007. The domain ... read more ...
Thu 26th April 2012
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GoldCoins.org, GoldPrices.com, RareCoins.com & RareCoins.org Become Lastest Target Of A UDRP - Yup someone just filed for a UDRP on a bunch of generic domain names including: GoldCoins.org,  GoldPrices.com, RareCoins.com RareCoins.org The filing also includes the domains: acoins.com austinreport.com goldinfo.net silverinfo.net All of the domain name are currently owned according to the whois by a “Hoa Nguyen” but were owned in December of last year by Aleks Krasnopolski of Linden, NJ Not sure what is going on here including who the complainant is, but on the face of its looks pretty ... read more ...
 
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Buydomains.com Loses Faci.com In a UDRP - A three member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name FACI.com, owned by BuyDomains.com to FACI Industries of Bolingbrook, Illinois Here are the relevant facts and findings by the panel: “Complainant markets its wares under the trademark FACI, which was registered as a word mark by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) in 1998 and 2011.” “Respondent, since 1999, has been in the business of registering domain names that become available when an existing registration expires. ... read more ...
Wed 25th April 2012
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Schwartz’s eRealEstate.com Responds To UDRP On Saveme.com; Asks For Reverse Hijacking & Blasts The Complaint - Rick Schwartz’s company eRealEstate.com, has just filed its response to the UDRP on the domain name SaveMe.com, filed by the owners of SaveMe.com.br. The full response is posted on Ricks site erealestate.com The response was written by Howard Neu, Esq, who blasts the complainant and asks for a finding of reverse hijacking. Here are some of the more interesting parts of the response: “”It is difficult to know where to begin to respond to the Complainant’s improbable and improper claims that ... read more ...
Wed 18th April 2012
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In A Case That Looks A Lot Like Saveme.com; UDRP Denied On RentFaster.com - In a case that bears some resemblance to the Saveme.com UDRP, a one member panel just denied the claim of a trademark holder for the generic domain name RentFaster.com In this case like Saveme.com a domain holder registration predated the trademark holders registration and that simply carried the day for the one member panel. Here are some quick facts and findings: The domain holder registered the domain name RentFaster.com on July 23, 2000. The Complainant registered several  trademarks  on the ... read more ...
Tue 17th April 2012
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SideTrack.com Becomes Latest Generic To Get Hit With A UDRP - A UDRP has been filed on the domain name Sidetrack.com. The domain name is parked but with reference to pretty general stuff including a lot of links to travel sites. Side track is a common expression and a dictionary word. According to wikipedia.org “Side Track is  railroad track that is auxiliary to the main track”. According to thefreedictionary.com, Side Track means: 1. To divert from a main issue or course: I was sidetracked from my work by an unexpected visitor. 2. To delay or block the ... read more ...
Fri 13th April 2012
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UDRP For Another Generic: LegalSupply.com Registered in 1998 - I don’t see how the Fair Act applies here but here is the law so everyone can read it: An Act To provide a process for identifying the functions of the Federal Government that are not inherently governmental functions, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998″. SEC. 2. ANNUAL LISTS OF GOVERNMENT ... read more ...
Wed 11th April 2012
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UDRP Filed On More Geo Generic’s FortLauderdaleConvention.com & FtlauderdaleConvention.com - A UDRP complaint has just been filed on three domain names, two of which seem very generic Geo’s The three domains subject to the complaint are: FortLauderdaleConvention.com FtlauderdaleConvention.com BrowardConventionCenter.com The domain name BrowardConventionCenter.com is more problematic since there is a building by the name of the “Greater Fort Lauderdale / Broward County Convention Center” The domain BrowardConventionCenter.com goes to a site that has info to the center as well as a ... read more ...
Tue 10th April 2012
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UDRP Panel Says Responding To An Offer To Sell, Doesn’t Indicate Bad Faith If The Offer Is Started By The Complainant - In a pretty interesting recent UDRP decision a one member panel concluded that it is not bad faith when domain owner responds to an offer to sell that is initiated by the Complainant. You know the game. You own a domain you believe is generic, someone sends you an offer wanting to buy the domain from you and when you respond to the offer the person who made the offer files a UDRP citing that you tried to sell them the domain as bad faith. The UDRP was over the domain name inclusivehealth.com and ... read more ...
Wed 4th April 2012
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National Arbitration Forum Says Cases Are Up 18% From 2009 But Down 4% From 2010 - In a press release today the The National Arbitration Forum (NAF),  “announced that a total of 2,082 cases were filed in its domain name dispute resolution program in 2011, up 18% from 2009 (1,759 cases) and down 4% from 2010 (2,177 cases). ” “Since the NAF first case in 1999, nearly 18,000 cases have been filed as of the end of 2011.” “”The following data pertains to the National Arbitration Forum domain name dispute resolution program in 2011 (January 1 to December 31, 2011): “More ... read more ...
 
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UDRP filed Against The Geo Domain Name Norcross.com, Owned By Marchex - According to UDRPSearch.com a UDRP has been filed against the owners of the domain name Norcross.com Norcross is a city in Georgia whose official site is Norcrossga.net Norcross.com is a parked page and returns results for mostly hotels and other travel links in Georgia which shouldn’t be a problem. Norcross.com is owned by Marchex  (Nasdaq: MCHX) The UDRP was filed on March 30, 2011 and was assigned the case number, 1437030. The complainant is not listed as of now. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 22nd February 2012
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Guest Post By Paul Keating ON “ABUSIVE SUPPLEMENTAL FILINGS” The UDRP Case Of AutoOwnersInsurance.com - This Guest Post was written by Paul Raynor Keating, Esq.[1] one of the preeminent attorney’s practicing in the domain industry.  Paul has handled many UDRP’s and had some thoughts about a recent UDRP involving the domain name autoownersinsurance.com. Paul’s post appears unedited: “”The recent decision in autoownersinsurance.com is a perfect example of things going from worse to horrible.  While the decision itself contains many substantive flaws, my overwhelming issue is with the lack ... read more ...
Mon 20th February 2012
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Guest Post By Paul Keating On UDRP’s: “Why Panel Certification is Important” The Case Of HardwareResources.Org - This Guest Post was written by Paul Raynor Keating, Esq.[1] one of the preeminent attorney’s practicing in the domain industry.  Paul has handled many UDRP’s and had some thoughts about a recent UDRP involving the domain name HardwareResources.org. We are publishing the post unedited: “”Although the UDRP has functioned for over a decade, the evidence continues to mount in favor of a certification process so all can be assured that panelists have the proper legal knowledge and address claims ... read more ...
Thu 12th January 2012
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BerryHill Beats Back UDRP on BMA.com - John Berryhill has won yet another UDRP this time successfully defending the domain holder SearchMachine on the domain name BMA.com Here are the relevant findings of facts: “The Complainant Braunschweiger Maschinenanstalt AG of Braunschweig, Germany, is the owner of registered trademarks for the letters BMA in China in class 7 (covering mechanical control fittings, filters, pumps, conveyers, agitators, centrifuges, vapor separators, valves and the like); class 37 (machinery installation, maintenance ... read more ...
Thu 5th January 2012
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EA loses domain brawl for SSX.com for arriving SSX launch - Video game maker unsuccessful in challenge to SSX.com domain name. Electronic Arts releases a reinvention of the SSX snowboarding video game next month, but it has failed to convince an arbitration panel that it deserves the domain name SSX.com. The domain name was purchased by Abstract Holdings International LTD as part of a $200,000 domain name portfolio purchase last October. For a brief period of time the domain name was parked with ads related to video games. EA ... read more ...
Tue 3rd January 2012
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1st Strange UDRP Decision Of The Year Holds Against TM Holder On The Domain IntercontinentalKabul.com - It didn’t take long into the new year for a strange UDRP decision to be published and this time its the Trademark Holder that can complain. Inter-Continental Hotels lost a  UDRP on the domain name intercontinentalkabul.com. Even more interesting is the domain name holder didn’t even respond to the UDRP The decision doesn’t make much sense to me but I did find the following comment by the one member panelist to be most interesting: “”Whatever else the Respondent may be it is not a typosquatter; ... read more ...
Wed 21st December 2011
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Bad Decision For The TM Holder? Lawyer/Owner Wins UDRP On The Domain GotMilkAds.com - In a UDRP published today, a lawyer domain holder beat back a challenge from The California Milk Processor Board on the domain name GotMilkAds.com California Milk Processor Board is the owner of the registered trademark GOT MILK? Its a interesting opinion especially in light of the fact that UDRP’s panels have awarded domain names to this same complainant based off of this trademark and led one domain blogger to recommend to domain holders not to mess with domains that might infringe on the Got ... read more ...
Mon 5th December 2011
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The “got milk” loophole - You can own GotMilk domains if… I’ve written before about how “got milk” is a trademark and actively protected by the California Milk Processor Board. Yet the owner of GotMilke.com just handed the group its first ever uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP) loss. How did he do it? Well, his last name was Milke. Surely the California Milk Processor Board noticed this when it originally sent him a cease desist letter? Just because the registrant’s ... read more ...
Tue 25th October 2011
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Berryhill Wins UDRP For Channel.TV: But Why No Reverse Hijacking? - Mr. John Berryhill has just won another UDRP this time on a .TV domain, Channel.TV The Complaint was brought by Channel Television Limited of St Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom of Great Britain whom despite finding that they had “unregistered trademark rights” to the domain, found no bad faith by the registrants. Here are the relevant facts and findings of the three member panel: “The Complainant is a television broadcaster that has operated in the Channel Islands since 1962 under various names ... read more ...
Sun 25th September 2011
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Roche Loses Control of 454.com, Fights to Get It Back - Pharma company loses key domain name. [Update: Roche has won the domain arbitration.] Roche subsidiary 454 Life Sciences has lost control of its 454.com domain name and is asking a UDRP panel to help it get it back. The history on 454.com is intriguing. Piecing it together with the help of DomainTools’ historical whois, there are several times over the past two years when this domain name may have been compromised. But earlier this month it suddenly was under a ... read more ...
Mon 19th September 2011
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Panelist Calls Clause in Name.com Registration Agreement “Extraordinary” - Panelist finds it odd that Name.com makes domain registrant responsible for its own “coming soon” pages. UDRP panelist Warwick A. Rothnie has called a clause in Name.com’s registration agreement related to parked pages an “extraordinary arrangement”. The clause basically says that Name.com will put up ads on your recently registered domain name but that the registrant is responsible for making sure the ads don’t violate third party intellectual property ... read more ...
Thu 15th September 2011
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Verizon Gets CitiBank Trademark Domain? - Cut and past error shows Verizon Trademark Services winning CityCard.com UDRP. We’ve seen a number of UDRP decisions that fall victim to cut-and-paste mistakes. The latest comes courtesy of a National Arbitration Forum panelist who copied the header from his previous UDRP case into the new one. The new case is Citigroup Inc. v. Yongki over CityCard.com. Citigroup won the case, but you would know it from the header. The header says the case was Verizon Trademark ... read more ...
Thu 8th September 2011
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NameMedia Sends “School Webmasters” Back to School - Arizona company loses domain name dispute over SchoolWebmaster.com. NameMedia, which runs domain name marketplaces Afternic and BuyDomains, has taught the owner of SchoolWebmasters.com a lesson. ScribeWrite, LLC operates as School Webmasters (schoolwebmasters.com), which provides web site services to schools and teachers. It filed a complaint with National Arbitration Forum in July, asking for it to award the domain name SchoolWebmaster.com (singular) to it. NameMedia ... read more ...
Wed 7th September 2011
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Guy Sues Alamo Car Rental After Losing UDRP - Man in the home of the Alamo sues after losing UDRP for Alamo domain name. A San Antonio man has sued Vanguard Trademark Holdings USA LLC, which manages the Alamo car rental trademarks, after losing a UDRP for the domain name AlamoClub.com. John K. Rivenburgh found himself on the losing end of a decision handed down by National Arbitration Forum panelist Maninder Singh. If you read the complaint, you’ll find Rivenburgh’s claimed use of the domain rather plausible. ... read more ...
Tue 6th September 2011
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University of Michigan Needs to Go Back to Law School - University loses case against alleged phishing web site. The Regents of the University of Michigan have failed to take control of two domain names in a poorly argued UDRP case. The university filed the claim to get control of SurveyResearchCenter.com and SurveyClaim.com, the latter of which it alleged is a phishing web site. It claimed that it established the Survey Research Center in 1946. The panel granted that the SurveyResearchCenter.com domain name is confusingly ... read more ...