Tag Archives: UDRP

Fri 14th August 2015
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Soccer Star Lionel Messi Files UDRP Seeking Control of 2 Domains Including Messi.com - The Soccer Star Lionel Messi, who may regard to be the best Soccer player in the world, has Filed UDRP Seeking Control of two Domain names Messi.com and Lionelmessi.com The UDRP was filed by the soccer star whose full name is Lionel Andres Messi Cuccittini. Messi.com has been owned under privacy since January but privacy was lifted to once the UDRP was filed and the domain name is owned by Lewis Jumpp of the UK. Prior to January of this year, domain investor Andy Booth of the UK, has owned the domain ... read more ...
Tue 11th August 2015
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Sweet Art Company LLC Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking on Domain Registered in 1998 - Sweet Art Company LLC represented by Christopher M. DeBacker of Law Office of Mark Brown, LLC, Kansas was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain sweetartinc.com which was registered in 1998. Sweet Art got a trademark in 2009. The one member panel of David E. Sorkin found: “In this case, it should have been obvious to Complainant that it could not prove that the disputed domain name was registered in bad faith. Even the allegations of bad faith in the Complaint relate ... read more ...
 
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SharkTank.com Saved in UDRP: No Reverse Hijacking Despite Domain Reg 6 Yrs Before TM - Sony Pictures Television Inc. just its attempt to grab the domain name SharkTank.com which was registered in 2002, while the trademark was not filed for until 2008 and not granted until 2009. However the Panel took a long way around and some interesting language to avoid finding Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Here are the highlights of the three member UDRP panel of Alan L. Limbury, Sandra J. Franklin, and Paul M. DeCicco “The two terms comprising SHARK TANK are generic and taken together, descriptive. ... read more ...
Fri 7th August 2015
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Verizon Files 1st UDRP For a .Porn Domain Name: Verizon.Porn - Verizon has  Filed the 1st UDRP For a .Porn Domain Name: Verizon.Porn The domain name was registered on June 4, 2015 and is owned by an Adam Rothman of Roslyn New York. Despite paying $1,500 in filing fees to gain control of Verizon.Porn, Verizon hasn’t bothered to  register the new gTLD .adult which was released at the same time.  Verizon.adult remains unregistered as of publication. Verizon did gain control of the domain name VerizonWireless.porn on June 29th after it was registered by a third ... read more ...
Wed 5th August 2015
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Two domain owners win UDRPs notwithstanding not responding - Panelists don’t blindly assume respondents are cybersquatting in two recent cases. Although it’s rare, domain name owners sometimes win UDRP filings despite not responding to the allegations. In these cases, the UDRP panelists actually use critical thinking on the merits of the case to make sure the complainant has met its burden. They don’t assume that a lack of response proves that the domain owner is a cybersquatter. Domain owners won two recent cases despite not responding to the complaints: The ... read more ...
Tue 4th August 2015
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July's Hottest Domain Name Stories - Sex.com, a $50,000 cybersquatting settlement and more. Legal stuff continued to make headlines in July in the domain biz. ParkingCrew also made things interesting with its acquisition of NameDrive. Here’s a look back at the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month. 1. Sex.Com lawsuit – company demands domain name over copyright and trademark claims. 2. Work Better Updates – I wrote several posts about the WorkBetter.com cybersquatting lawsuit last month that made the top charts. The owner ... read more ...
 
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How Did a UDRP Panel In Chooser.com Not Find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking? - Chooser S.A. of Jodoigne, Belgium just lost its attempt to grab the domain name Chooser.com in a UDRP. The Belgium company didn’t have any registered trademark but attempted to grab the domain name based on a “common law mark” they alleged but could not prove, that they owned the domain back in “2010 when due to an error by someone in the IT department they let the domain drop.” The UDRP panel found the Complainant did not prove they owned the domain and even went as far to call the Complaint ... read more ...
Fri 31st July 2015
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KraftHeinz.com Registered The Same Day a Merger Was Announced Lost in UDRP - A one member UDRP panel awarded the domain name kraftheinz.com was registered on March 25, 2015, the same day the merger between Kraft Foods Group, and H.J. Heinz Company was announced. The decision was published in Korean and we used Google translate. The panel said: “Registering a domain name that combines the names of the target company by merger or a merger between companies that act in bad faith in using them are identified through a number of bars prior UDRP decision the applicant is cited. ... read more ...
Wed 29th July 2015
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18 Year Old Generic Domain eWomen.com Saved in UDRP - eWomenNetwork, Inc. lost its bid to grab the 18 year old domain eWomen.com in a UDRP The three member panel of the Honorable Richard DiSalle, the Honorable Karl V. Fink, (Ret.) and The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown found the 18 year old domain was registered in good faith by the registrant but refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) Here are the highlights: Complainant has registered the EWOMEN mark in stylized form with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) (Reg. ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy loses initial UDRP from Marchex portfolio acquisition - No one responded to the dispute. GoDaddy has lost its first UDRP from the portfolio it acquired from Marchex in April. The company didn’t respond to a UDRP filed by Dairyland Midwest, Inc. d/b/a AgVision for the domain name AgVision.com. When the UDRP was filed last month, World Intellectual Property Organization sent a notice of the dispute to all contacts on the domain name. That included an @archeo.com email address as well as sales@nnamefind.com. Although the latter email address appears to ... read more ...
Tue 28th July 2015
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Donald Trump Wins Control of Trumppalace.com - Donald Trump has won another UDRP this time on the domain name Trumppalace.com which was purchased by the domain holder for $800 tto sell units in Trump’s condo in Sunny Isle Beach in South Florida Here are the facts: “”Complainant Donald Trump is a household name in the United States and in many other parts of the world. He is one of the best known businessmen in the United States. He is known, among other things, as a leading real estate developer. The TRUMP mark has been used and is registered ... read more ...
Mon 27th July 2015
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Unbiased.com saved in UDRP though no RDNH - UDRP panel is unbiased, finds in favor of domain name owner. The owner of Unbiased.co.uk has failed to win rights to the Unbiased.com domain name in a UDRP. Unbiased.co.uk helps people find financial advisers, mortgage brokers, solicitors and accountants. The company filed its cybersquatting claim on the basis of a trademark for unbiased.co.uk. While panelists Neil Brown, Henrik af Ursin and Paul M. DeCicco found against Unbiased.co.uk in the case, they declined to find the company to have engaged ... read more ...
Sat 25th July 2015
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UDRP Filed on The 25 Year Old Domain Name Cambridge.com By University of Cambridge - The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge has filed a UDRP on the domain name Cambridge.com. The domain is owned by Kirkland Holdings LLC of Brookline MA since March 2012. The prior owner of the domain name is “MHL” also of Brookline who got the domain around September 2009. The domain has an original creation date of September 21, 1992 making it just about 25 years old. As you can see on the screenshot the site Cambridge.com asks users to “click to Choose Your Cambridge. The ... read more ...
Fri 24th July 2015
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BMW Files UDRP on The Domain Hack B.MW - BMW has filed a UDRP seeking control of the domain name hack B.MW with the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO. .MW is the country code (ccTLD) for Malawi. According to the whois record for the .MW registry the domain name B.MW has a creation date of 07-06-2004 but was updated in On March 10, 2015, with the domain possibly changing hands. The domain name B.MW is resolving to A.MW which is owned by Living By Blue, Co. TLD out of Japan, which lists hundreds of domain names for sale with prices ... read more ...
 
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API.Info Lost in UDRP - Colegio Oficial de Agentes de La Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Barcelona of Barcelona, Spain, just won control of the domain name API.info Most of us in the tech space know API to stand for Application Program Interface, which “is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications.” and is typically used to integrate data from one site or a database into a website. The Complainant whose website is API.Cat, is a public and regulated body that integrates and represents the real ... read more ...
Wed 22nd July 2015
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UDRP Panel Returns Stolen Domain EHT.com To Owner: Privacy Creates Presumption Of Bad Faith - John Dilks represented by John Berryhill, just won control of the domain name EHT.com in a UDRP, which was stolen from Mr. Dilks account at Tucows. The UDRP panel of Houston Putnam Lowry, ordered the domain returned to the owner finding that “A domain holder cannot have legitimate interests in a domain name acquired by theft.” However the panel gives some disturbing language for those that use privacy on their domain name registrations and I’m not sure where the panelist gets the authority ... read more ...
 
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Nat Cohen's Telepathy Settles Federal Lawsuit On SDT.com Getting a $50K Settlement - Back in November we told you that Nat Cohen’s Telepathy filed a Federal Lawsuit over the domain name SDT.com which he owned after a UDRP was filed. Nat has informed us that the case has now been settled and SDT paid $50,000 to settle it. After a UDRP was filed on SDT.com, Telepathy filed a federal lawsuit in federal court requesting statutory damages for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, a statement that its ownership of SDT.com was lawful, and attorney’s fees. SDT was advised by represented by ... read more ...
 
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Neuron SA of Paris Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On 19 Yr Old Neurones.com - Luc Chammard of Nanterre, France, and the company Neuron SA of Paris, France, represented by Mr. Cohen, Lawyer, France was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Neurones.com in a decision handed down by a three member WIPO UDRP panel The domain holder was represented by UDRP POLICE DBS, United Kingdom The three member panel consisted of Philippe Gilliéron, Richard G. Lyons and Christiane Feral-Schuhl. It should be noted that the decision was published in ... read more ...
 
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Bloomberg Files UDRP To Gain Control Of The Domain That Caused The Twitter Stock Swing - Bloomberg filed a UDRP to take control of the domain name Bloomberg.Market the domain that caused shares of Twitter to rise 8% when it published a fake report that Twitter was being bought out. Bloomberg.Market which you can see a screenshot of here, was taken down by the Registry of .Market,  Rightside (NAME) a few hours after the Twitter story broke per their “normal operating procedures” By filing a UDRP rather than a URS Bloomberg seeks to take ownership of the domain rather than just keep ... read more ...
Tue 21st July 2015
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E-Renter.com nailed for retreat domain name hijacking - Background check company filed complaint in abuse of cybersquatting policy. A background check on this company won’t come back clean anymore.E-Renter USA Ltd, which operates a background screening site for renters at E-Renter.com, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name ERenter.com. The company filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization against Kevin Ham’s Vertical Axis. The owner of the background check company registered the domain ... read more ...
Mon 20th July 2015
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UDRP's and Fan Sites: Outcome is a Roll of a Dice - Like with most gambling, Bally Gaming, Inc. just won a few and lost a couple in a UDRP it filed over 8 gambling related domain names winning the rights to: caribbean-stud-poker-online.com crazy4pokeronline.com let-it-ride-online.com mississippi-stud.com texas-holdem-bonus.com ultimate-texas-holdem-online.com And losing the UDRP on: 3‑cardpokeronline.com 4-cardpokeronline.com The decision goes on to a detailed explanation of the varying views of Fan Sites and UDRP panels which makes for an interesting ... read more ...
Fri 17th July 2015
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UDRP Panel Rejects "Renewal Of A Domain Resets Bad Faith Clock": BabyBanana.com Saved - Live-Right, LLC has just lost its attempt to grab the domain name BabyBanana.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. which was represented as usual by represented by Esqwire.com. I believe is a particularly important win for domain owners. The decision affirms the business of investing and reselling domain names is legitimate use under the policy/ More importantly, the panel emphatically rejected the Playland Decision which, found quite dangerously and incorrectly for every domain holder, under ... read more ...
Thu 16th July 2015
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American Automobile Association loses cybersquatting box opposite locksmith - Group went after locksmith in Naples who uses the business name AAA Locksmith. American Automobile Association (AAA) has lost a cybersquatting claim against a Florida locksmith who uses the brand AAA Locksmith. Adam Cooper uses the domain name AAALocksmithNaples.com for his business, and AAA filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization to take his web address. The panel agreed that AAA is commonly used in business names and that American Automobile Association did not show that Cooper ... read more ...
Wed 15th July 2015
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NF.com domain name saved in UDRP - Panel finds against French group but says it isn’t guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), a French certification company, has lost a UDRP it filed against the owner of NF.com. AFNOR uses the domain name marque-nf.com. The case decision is in Chinese, so I invite any Chinese readers to chime in if I’ve missed anything key here. The domain name owner is in the milk products business, and NF is an acronym for the Chinese word for milk. The panel ... read more ...
Tue 14th July 2015
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Enom.com Wins Rights to Enoms.com Just 15 years After it Was Registered - eNom.com won the rights to the domain name Enoms.com in a UDRP just 15 short years after the domain name was first registered and 8 years after the domain was registered by the current domain holder. By the way you got to love the name of the domain holder “Muhammad Enoms General delivery / ENoms.com has been registered just few days after Enom.com, therefore could not have been regstere” (“Respondent”), Indonesia The registrant actually ran out of room to put in the line for the Administrative ... read more ...