Tag Archives: UDRP

Thu 2nd June 2011
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Demand Media Gets Into a Other Side of UDRP - Company files complaint to get eHow domain name. Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has been on the receiving end of plenty of UDRP cases for domain names. In fact, it may be barred from applying for new top level domain names because of its many losses (technically). But the company also finds itself on the other side of the table and just filed a case for eHowTravel.com. The web site appears to be a splog of travel information. Apparently Demand Media has registered ... read more ...
Wed 1st June 2011
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Tucows Wins UDRP for Surname Domain Hinkley.com - Registrar defends domain name from attack by lighting company. Domain name registrar Tucows has successfully defended the domain name hinkley.com, which is part of its expansive portfolio of surnames, from lighting company Hinkley Lighting, Inc in a UDRP. The domain name was registered in 1996 and came as part of Tucows’ acquisition of NetIdentity. The panel ruled that Hinkley Lighting failed to show that Tucows lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain ... read more ...
 
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Viking Office Products Tries to Take Sentimental Domain Name from Altavista Inventor’s Widow - Company goes after Viking.org in arbitration only to find out the real reason the owner didn’t want to sell it. Viking Office Products, Inc., an affiliate of Office Depot, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a bizarre case involving Viking.org. The office products company filed for arbitration with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name, and painted registrant Natasha Flaherty as a cybersquatter who would only consider selling the ... read more ...
Tue 31st May 2011
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ICANN Recommends Against Revamping UDRP - ICANN staff says now is not the time to open wholesale rethink of UDRP. Echoing the sentiments of a number of UDRP providers as well as prominent UDRP defense attorneys, ICANN’s staff has recommended against having the Generic Names Supporting Organization opening a “policy development process” on UDRP. However, in a new report ICANN notes that there are some complaints about process and implementation of UDRP that may warrant review should GNSO feel it necessary ... read more ...
Thu 26th May 2011
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Pac-10 Goes After More Domain Names - Sporting conference files dispute over three domain names. The Pac-10 conference, which now has twelve teams with the addition of Colorado and Utah and will rebrand as the Pac-12, is again turning to the World Intellectual Property Forum in an effort to get domain names related to its new brand. The group filed a complaint (and won) over pac-12network.com, pac12network.com, and pac-12network.org. All three are registered to an Ontario man. The collegiate athletic ... read more ...
Wed 25th May 2011
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Fortune 500 Company Goes After Three Letter .Com But Loses - Company with $5 billion in annual sales decides to try to nab domain through arbitration rather than buy it. The price just went up. The owner of TDS.com has successfully defended his domain name from Telephone and Data Systems, Inc in a UDRP case. Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. is #450 on this year’s Fortune 500 list and generated nearly $5 billion in revenue last year. TDS.com was originally registered way back in 1991. The current registrant, Daniel Wang, ... read more ...
Wed 18th May 2011
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DancePartner.com Fails to Find Dance Partner in UDRP - Company asks panel for domain registered in 1999 based on a generic mark it first used in commerce in 2003. The owner of DancePartner.com has failed to find a dancing mate in DancePartners.com through a UDRP. DancePartner.com owner Dancesoft filed the complaint on the basis of a trademark it filed in 2003, many years after the respondent’s 1999 registration of the DancePartners.com domain name. Beyond the fact that DancePartners.com is perfectly generic and can ... read more ...
Tue 17th May 2011
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Peruvian Broadcaster Loses Case for RPP.com - Broadcast company can’t have three letter domain name, panel rules. Peru broadcast company GRUPORPP S.A., which has an online news portal at rpp.com.pe, has lost an arbitration case in which it fought for the domain name RPP.com. According to the panel decision the company managed to get a trademark for RPP.com in Peru back in 2001, which is quite scary given that it didn’t own the domain name. Although the company has been around since 1963, it didn’t say whether ... read more ...
Mon 16th May 2011
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Mrs Jello Gets a Win for Geo Domain Owners - Domainer wins case over geographic domain name brought by petroleum company. What do you do when the name of a place has also been incorporated into a business name? This was the issue in a recent UDRP case involving a Brazilian petroleum company and the domainer commonly known as “Mrs Jello”. Ipiranga Produtos de Petróleo S.A. filed the case in an effort to get the domain name ipiranga.com. Ipiranga happens to be the name of a famous river in Brazil as well ... read more ...
Wed 11th May 2011
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Prominent UDRP Defense Attorneys Also Opposed to UDRP Reform - If it ain’t completely broke, don’t risk breaking it. Yesterday I wrote about how World Intellectual Property Forum and National Arbitration Forum are opposed to initiating a UDRP reform effort at WIPO. They aren’t the only ones in this camp. Prominent UDRP defense attorneys John Berryhill and Ari Goldberger also spoke on yesterday’s “State of the UDRP” webinar. And both of them are opposed to an overhaul of UDRP. This is an interesting dynamic. The ... read more ...
Tue 10th May 2011
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Incumbents Opposed to UDRP Reform - Two largest UDRP providers opposed to UDRP reform. The two largest UDRP providers — National Arbitration Forum (NAF) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) — are opposed to reforming the UDRP at this time. Representatives of NAF and WIPO made statements this morning on an ICANN conference call regarding “The State of the UDRP”. WIPO also released a written statement that you can view here. It seems that intellectual property interests are concerned ... read more ...
Thu 5th May 2011
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National Motor Club Hits Jackpot, Wins 3 Letter Domain in UDRP - Group wins 3 letter domain name when owner doesn’t respond. National Motor Club of America, Inc. is the proud new owner of the three letter domain name NMC.com, which it won in a UDRP decision handed down by National Arbitration Forum. The owner of the domain name has used whois privacy at Network Solutions for many years. They didn’t respond the the complaint, and my guess is they didn’t even receive it. Typically a panel will consider handing over a three ... read more ...
Mon 25th April 2011
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Morgan Stanley Sues Cybersquatters and Phishers - Bank sues alleged cybersquatters and phishers. Morgan Stanley already has the domain names — but it wants more than that. The bank has filed a lawsuit against the owners of five domain names that it says were used for cybersquatting and phishing. The company already has possession of four of the five domain names thanks to proceedings at National Arbitration Forum last year. Through UDRP it picked up ms-ae-fund.com, morganstanleyae.us, morganstanleyae.com, and ... read more ...
Sun 24th April 2011
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Absolut Vodka Can Now Get Into a Marijuana Business - New York photographer must give up domain name with spoof Absolut Vodka ad. A joint with your Absolut Vodka? VS Vin Sprit Aktiebolag, the company behind Absolut Vodka and its iconic advertising campaigns, has won the transfer of the domain name AbsolutCannabis.com from a New York photographer. Brantley Carroll registered the domain name and published a mock Absolut ad on the site for Absolut Cannabis. He apparently offered copies of the mock ad for sale through the ... read more ...
Thu 21st April 2011
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[Updated] ICANN Sends Breach Notice to EuroDNS Over Facebook UDRP - ICANN threatens EuroDNS if it fails to transfer domain name to Facebook. ICANN has sent a Notice of Breach (pdf) to popular European domain name registrar EuroDNS for its failure to transfer a client domain name after an adverse UDRP decision. In September 2010 a EuroDNS client lost a UDRP for Facebok.com (with one ‘o’), which is certainly a common typo for the popular social network. As of today the domain name is still in the client’s hands. It forwards ... read more ...
Mon 18th April 2011
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UDRP Panel Questions Oversee.net’s Automated Domain Registration Processes - WIPO panel questions Oversee.net defense of “automated systems” for registering domain names. A UDRP panel has found against Oversee.net in a UDRP dispute over CarrollHouse.com and has posed significant questions about the company’s domain name registration practices. Complainant Carol House Furniture has used its name since 1965 and it incorporated in 1970. The dispute says that Oversee.net registered the domain on September 4, 2010. But the domain was actually ... read more ...
Thu 7th April 2011
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National Arbitration Forum Gets The Headline Right - UDRP filings up. That doesn’t mean cybersquatting is increasing. Today National Arbitration Forum released statistics about its UDRP caseload from 2010. It was up 24% from 2009 to 2,177 cases. The group’s press release headline is: National Arbitration Forum Reports a 24 Percent Increase in Domain Name Dispute Filings in 2010 This is an accurate and factual statement. Compare this to World Intellectual Property Forum’s headline when it released numbers last ... read more ...
Mon 7th March 2011
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1986 Domain Name Octopus.com Could Be Lost in UDRP - Ads on Octopus.com will shift burden to domain name owner. A travel company has filed a UDRP against Octopus.com, which was originally registered in 1986. OctopusTravel.com operator Octopustravel Group Limited filed the complaint against a Singapore man. Octopus.com was originally registered in 1986 but transferred to the current registrant no earlier than 2009. Octopustravel Group filed for a U.S. trademark for “OctopusTravel” in 2000 that was granted in 2002. In ... read more ...
Sat 5th March 2011
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National Arbitration Forum Now Taking .Co Disputes - Two largest UDRP administrators now handling .co domain name disputes. [Update: Apparently NAF started offering .co disputes last fall. This is the first time I’ve seen a .co dispute there.] National Arbitration Forum has joined World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in offering dispute resolution services for .co domain name. When .co relaunched last year the only authorized UDRP provider was WIPO. Some companies were behind the ball and didn’t get ... read more ...
Wed 23rd February 2011
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7S.com Owner Can Keep Domain Name Despite Andrew Christie’s Opinion - Activist UDRP panelist at it again in 7s.com case. If you ever need to point a finger at UDRP panelists that are trying to pervert the entire system, one of those should be Andrew Christie. I awarded Christie a “Domain Dunce” award in 2009 for his attempts to change the plain language and thousands of cases of precedent of UDRP. He did it by circularly referencing his own cases. Now Christie is at it again in the case of 7s.com. The owner of the domain name ... read more ...
Tue 22nd February 2011
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Pac12.com Owner Sues Pac-10 Conference Over Domain Name - Lawsuit filed over Pac12.com domain name. The owner of the Pac12.com domain name has sued the Pacific-10 collegiate athletic conference in an effort to keep his domain name. Austin Linford filed the suit (pdf) after the PAC-10 filed a UDRP complaint (pdf) with World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain name Pac12.com. Linford is asking for a declaratory judgment of non-infringement. Although it originally appeared that the domain name changed hands ... read more ...
Fri 18th February 2011
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LionsDen.com Owner Wins Domain Dispute - WIPO panel rules in favor of domain name owner. The owner of LionsDen.com since 1995 can keep his domain name, a World Intellectual Property Organization UDRP panel has decided. Mile, Inc., which owns The Lion’s Den retail brand of adult entertainment products, filed the complaint arguing that the domain name infringed on its rights. The company faced an uphill battle since the domain name is generic and was registered some 15 years before it filed the complaint. ... read more ...
Thu 10th February 2011
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Be Very Afraid of UDRP Reform - Domain investors have uphill battle in UDRP reform. UDRP reform is coming. And this should scare the crap out of you. Now let me get a few things out there: 1. I’ve never been a party in a UDRP case 2. I’ve read (and written) about many UDRP cases where the wrong decision was made Thus I’m a fan of fixing some of the inequalities in UDRP, the lack of contracts with UDRP providers, etc. But let’s be honest. When’s the last time domain investors got what ... read more ...
Wed 9th February 2011
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UDRP Cases Spike in 2010 - Number of cases filed in 2010 increases thanks largely to brand protection services. The number of Uniform domain-name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)cases filed at the two largest arbitration providers increased over 25% in 2010 compared to 2009, a Domain Name Wire analysis shows. However, the rate of filing defined as the number of cases divided by the number of registered domains remains near an all time low. World Intellectual Property Forum handled 2,696 cases ... read more ...
Fri 4th February 2011
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UDRP Panel Weighs in on Domain Broker Responses - Jeff, your point is well taken, and relates to what Michael asked above. The point here is that what is relevant to the UDRP is an intention of registering a domain name with the “primary purpose of selling to to the Complainant or a competitor”. What’s been happening, across the board, is that people have registered and been using domain names for years and years, and then someone in the Complainant’s organization hits up a broker, such as Sedo, Marksmen, Buydomains, and so ... read more ...