Tag Archives: UDRP

Tue 10th November 2009
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MediaWhiz Nailed for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Online advertising company loses case and is reprimanded by arbitrator. New York based online advertising company MediaWhiz has been found guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking of the MediaWiz.biz domain name. MediaWhiz’s arbitration case was doomed from the start based on the date of its trademark and when the MediaWiz.biz domain was registered. The company was awarded a trademark in 2006, claiming first use in 2002. Not only was it for only a graphical ... read more ...
 
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20 Years Later, Janet Jackson Gets Rhythm Nation Domain Name - Janet Jackson wins domain name at arbitration. You can excuse Janet Jackson for not registering the RhythmNation1814.com domain name when she originally released her hit album. After all, it was 1989 when Jackson released the album with #1 hits “Miss You Much” and “Escapade”. Domain names weren’t on top of most peoples’ minds back then. Nonetheless, Jackson’s company probably should have thought to register the domain before the current registrant ... read more ...
Fri 6th November 2009
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After Winning Case, Man Hands Domain Name to Glenn Beck - Man gives controversial domain name to Beck after proving a point. Isaac Eiland-Hall just won a highly publicized case against Glenn Beck over the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com. As soon as he won, he did something surprising: he offered the domain name to Beck for free. In a letter (pdf) to Beck, Eiland-Hall explained that he has met his objectives with the domain name and web site, and points out to Beck that bringing the case made things ... read more ...
Wed 4th November 2009
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Google Steps Up Domain Name Arbitration Cases - Google steps up domain trademark enforcement for its brands. After many years of using domain arbitration as the last resort for picking up trademark domains, Google has gotten involved in the domain arbitration process in a big way this year. Either it is changing its trademark domain recapturing process or the number of AWOL trademark registrants is on the rise. When Google filed a case for GoogleAdwords.com last year, my question to Google was ‘what took you ... read more ...
 
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Atlanta.com Mistakenly Named in Domain Dispute - Atlanta.com included in UDRP by accident. My heart skipped a beat today when I saw that Atlanta.com had been served with a domain arbitration notice. But then I quickly figured out that this is some sort of clerical error. Automobile Atlanta, Inc. filed a case with National Arbitration Forum for six domains including automobileatlanta.com, autoatlanta.net, automobileatlanta.net, dr914.com, and lifeinhighgear.com. Oh yeah, and a minor domain name called Atlanta.com ... read more ...
Mon 2nd November 2009
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HomeAway.com Evicted in Domain Dispute - Vacation rental directory loses domain name dispute. HomeAway.com, Inc. has lost its domain dispute for HomeAwayFromHome.com against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. Name Administration was defended by domain attorney John Berryhill. Name Administration bought the domain name for $1,400 in an expired domain name auction in 2005. HomeAway.com acquired the Home Away From Home trademark from another company in 2007. The arbitration panel at National Arbitration ... read more ...
 
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WIPO to Offer Fast Track UDRP Without ICANN Approval? - WIPO plans to make fast-track UDRP on its own. Managing Intellectual Property published an article today saying World Intellectual Property Organization will offer a fast-track UDRP starting next year. No, this is not the proposed “Uniform Rapid Suspension”. And, according to the article, WIPO says it can introduce this “Fast Track” without any interaction from ICANN. How can WIPO do this? It plans to make changes to its supplemental UDRP rules. These are ... read more ...
Thu 29th October 2009
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WalMart Goes After PeopleofWalMart.com Typo - Walmart files for domain arbitration, but not against the actual web site. Remember how a couple weeks ago I wondered how long it would be before Walmart would file a domain arbitration case against PeopleofWalmart.com? Well, there was an interesting twist today. Walmart filed a case, not against the actual PeopleofWalmart.com site, but against a typo of it: PeapleofWalmart.com (notice the a instead of o). It should be a slam dunk case for Walmart, given that ... read more ...
Mon 26th October 2009
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Kate Hudson Fights for Her Domain Name - Actress files for arbitration to get domain name. Actress Kate Hudson is fighting for the right to the domain name KateHudson.com. [Update: she won the case.] The actress, famous for roles in Almost Famous, You, Me and Dupree, and My Best Friend’s Girl (pictured), has filed for arbitration at National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name. The domain name is currently parked and shows links for “kate hudson pics”, “celebrity photos”, “kate hudson”, ... read more ...
 
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Noss Calls Out WIPO during ICANN Meeting - WIPO’s inconsistency called out at ICANN meeting. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss seized an opportune moment to call out UDRP provider World Intellectual Property Organization during the first day of ICANN’s Seoul meetings. During a session on Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery, WIPO’s Eun-Joo Min commented that one of the problems with domain expiration is that registrars handle it inconsistently and in a non-transparent manner: I think it is really important for ... read more ...
 
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Australian Company Wants .Com, Gets Nailed for Reverse Domain Hijacking - Web site company apparently doesn’t understand domain names. An Australian web site development company, Bwired Group Pty Ltd, has failed in its attempt to get the domain name Bwired.com through arbitration — and was found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. There are two interesting things about this case. First, it shows that companies can’t rely on their country code domain name alone — they still need .com. Bwired uses bwired.com.au as its domain. ... read more ...
Fri 23rd October 2009
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Bloomberg Loses Domain Name Dispute - Media giant loses case against small town real estate agent. Financial media company Bloomberg Finance has lost a domain name dispute with a small town real estate agent over the domain BloombergRealty.com. Bloomberg filed a case with National Arbitration Forum, arguing that the domain name BloombergRealty.com violated the media company’s trademark. The domain’s owner is Nancy Shulman, a real estate agent whose married surname was Bloomberg. Bloomberg Finance ... read more ...
 
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Dow Jones Loses Marketwatch.net Domain Name Case - Second domain arbitration loss for financial media company today. Earlier today Domain Name Wire wrote about financial media company Bloomberg losing a domain name arbitration case for BloombergRealty.com. Apparently today isn’t a good day for financial media companies and domain names: Dow Jones just found itself on the losing end of a case for Marketwatch.net. Dow Jones runs the popular Marketwatch.com web site, which it launched in 1997. About a month after ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2009
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Arkansas Company Spills Hot Coffee on Rival’s Domain Name Claims - Respondent in domain dispute successful against rival online coffee retailer. An Arkansas company has successfully defended a domain arbitration case brought against it by a rival online coffee retailer. Discount Coffee.com Inc. filed an arbitration case against WCM Investments of Arkansas, which operates Coffee.org. WCM had registered the domain names discount-coffee.net, discountcoffee.net, and discountedcoffee.com to drive traffic to Coffee.org, and DiscountCoffee.com ... read more ...
Wed 21st October 2009
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Sony picks adult Walkman.net. But will it do anything with it? - Sony wins a Walkman domain name, but don’t count on a new web site any time soon. Sony Corporation has been awarded the domain name Walkman.net in a domain arbitration case at World Intellectual Property Organization. Sony invented the iconic Walkman in the late 70s. Walkman became somewhat of a generic term for portable music devices (similar to Scotch Tape for clear tape) until MP3 players went mainstream this decade. Sony still uses the brand for its portable ... read more ...
 
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AAA Auto Club Gets AAA.net Domain Name…and Porn Names - AAA gets hands on AAA.net. But it is overstepping its bounds. American Automobile Association (AAA) has been awarded the domain name AAA.net after filing a lawsuit against its owners. AAA had lost a UDRP arbitration at National Arbitration Forum for the domain name, and then sued the owners of the domain in U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania. The National Arbitration Forum got it right — but in this case the defendants’ behavior with other ... read more ...
Tue 20th October 2009
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Eco Spat: Live Earth Charged with Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Environmental awareness company busted for “glaring example” of reverse domain name hijacking. A for profit eco awareness and fundraising company that associates itself with Al Gore has lost a domain name dispute and been charged with reverse domain name hijacking. Live Earth, LLC, which organizes concerts, runs, and other events to raise money and awareness for environmental issues, filed an arbitration case with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name ... read more ...
Thu 8th October 2009
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Arbitrator Hands DKB.com to Deutsche Kreditbank - Three letter domain name awarded to bank. An arbitrator with World Intellectual Property Organization has awarded the domain name DKB.com to Deutsche Kreditbank AG. The owner of DKB.com, DKB Data Services, had invalid contact information and may have been dissolved — which probably explains why it didn’t respond to the complaint. Arbitrator John Swinson found that the domain was registered in bad faith because it has not been used: The Respondent has apparently ... read more ...
 
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Can a Three Letter Domain Be a Typo? - Dun Bradstreet wins DBN.com domain name. Here’s an interesting UDRP domain arbitration decided by a National Arbitration Forum panelist. Dun Bradstreet Corporation, which operates DNB.com, filed for arbitration against DBN.com. The domain owner didn’t respond to the complaint and lost the case. It didn’t help that his parking page at DBN.com has links for products related to Dun Bradstreet. What’s interesting is that DB claims the respondent is engaging ... read more ...
Thu 1st October 2009
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Napoleon Hill Foundation Doesn’t Own “And Grow Rich” - Arbitrator rules against foundation on all three counts in UDRP. The Napolean Hill Foundation has gotten rich off its namesake’s timeless “Think and Grow Rich” book. But an arbitrator with National Arbitration Forum has ruled that it doesn’t have a lock on the term “and grow rich”. The foundation filed a claim against the owner of FlipandGrowRich.com, a web site that offers information about flipping real estate, including a book titled “Flip and Grow ... read more ...
 
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Arbitrator Rains on Media Rain’s Parade - Utah company loses its frivolous UDRP complaint. No surprise here. But still a sad, abusive story to report. Media Rain, LLC has lost its arbitration proceedings in which it tried to obtain the domain name Rain.com. The facts were quite damning. Rain.com was registered back in 1990, 18 years prior to Media Rain’s formation. Verio acquired the ISP that owned Rain.com in 1996. But Media Rain, which uses the domain name MediaRain.com, wanted to get its hands ... read more ...
 
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Hot off Press: Domain Owner Responds to Glenn Beck - Response filed in Glenn Beck domain dispute. Most UDRP domain dispute proceedings make for dry reading. But when someone who has created a bitingly satirical web site works with his lawyer to put pen to the paper, the end result can be quite amusing. Such is the case in Glenn Beck’s fight for the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com. If you haven’t read about this case yet, the domain owner created the web site because of an internet meme ... read more ...
Tue 29th September 2009
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Paris Attacks Geo Domain Name Owners - Paris entity attacks generic domain names, including two domains that include the word “Paris”. In a startling move, a quasi-governmental organization in Paris, France, has filed domain disputes against owners of generic domain names including the word “Paris” that have to do with internet access. Ville de Paris filed cases against three domain names: WifiParis.com, Wifi-Paris.com, and Parvi.org. In a 2008 dispute for the domain name VilledeParis.com, the ... read more ...
Mon 28th September 2009
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Not-So-Uniform Domain Dispute Resolution Policy - Inconsistency in UDRP decisions. Officially, UDRP stands for Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy. But sometimes it seems it should be called various-form, or not-uniform. How arbitrators decide cases can be a crap shoot. Here’s a recent example: ChinaDiesel.com. The complainant lost the case. But what’s interesting is how the arbitrator approached the first requirement of UDRP: “the domain name registered by Respondent is identical or confusingly ... read more ...
 
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Cheech & Chong Try to Smoke Out Domain Name - Comedians file for arbitration to get domain name. Comedy duo Richard “Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong are reuniting — to go after the domain name CheechandChong.com. After a long separation, the pair have been making numerous appearances and a tour together. So it naturally follows that they’d want to grab the domain name. A complaint was filed World Intellectual Property Organization and should be resolved within a couple months. The domain name is currently ... read more ...