Tag Archives: UDRP

Fri 21st November 2008
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UDRP Watch: Ping.me, GoldenGlobes.com, and NameJet Typo - A review of recently filed domain name arbitration cases. Here’s a quick look at recently filed arbitration cases at WIPO and National Arbitration Forum. Check back for updates as the cases are decided. Ping.me: Although the domain owner won’t talk, my guess is Ping Golf filed this case. They’ve been aggressive in the past trying to get Ping.net and other domains. GoldenGlobe(s).com: Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which runs the Golden Globe Awards, ... read more ...
Wed 19th November 2008
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Big Companies Get Benefit of Doubt in UDRP Decisions - A recent UDRP decision begs the question, do big companies get the benefit of doubt in UDRP? Most UDRP arbitration filings are against small time domain owners. So a recent case caught my eye because the respondent was a major media company, Scripps Networks. Scripps networks owns HGTV, Food Network, and DIY network among others. The case was brought by Automotive Networks Corporation over the domain names WheelsTV.com and MyWheelsTV.com. Scripps won because the ... read more ...
Fri 14th November 2008
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BMEzine Files Response to BME.com Lawsuit - An update to the ongoing saga over BME.com. BMEzine.com’s home page. BMEzine has filed a response to Gregory Ricks’ lawsuit over the domain name BME.com. Here’s a quick history: -In August, Gregory Ricks lost the domain name BME.com in a WIPO decision under UDRP. Although it is a generic three character domain name, he had a picture and ads related to tattoos and body modification. There is a popular web site called BMEzine.com about tattoos, body modification, ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2008
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Rock Group Wants ThirdEyeBlind.net - Alternative rock group files UDRP to get domain name ahead of new album release. Rock group Third Eye Blind has filed a UDRP claim to get the domain name ThirdEyeBlind.net. The claim was filed by lead vocalist Stephan Jenkins’ production company. Third Eye Blind’s official web site is the short and simple 3eb.com. So why just get around to filing the UDRP now, and why only the .net version instead of .com? I have a couple hunches. For the timing, Third Eye ... read more ...
Thu 6th November 2008
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Porsche.me: Money Down a Drain - Man who shelled out big bucks in .me auction kicking himself now. Pity poor Georg Kohler of Brazil. In August I wrote about how he snapped up car company names in the .me launch auctions. He even paid $90,025 for Toyota.me. Apparently he hadn’t gotten the memo from ten years ago about the dangers of owning trademarked domain names. In a recent World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) decision, he lost Porsche.me to the car company. Could his $90,000 investment ... read more ...
Wed 29th October 2008
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Texas Domainer Wins Case Against California Agency - Attorney and domain investor wins case brought by California train service. Texas attorney, lobbyist, and domain investor Ramiro Canales has successfully defended an attack on one of his company’s domain names, CapitolCorridor.com. Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority, which manages a Northern California train service, filed the complaint under UDRP. The train service has a web presence at CapitolCorridor.org. “California is in a financial mess, but it somehow ... read more ...
Mon 29th September 2008
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“We The People, In Order to Acquire a More Perfect Domain Name…” - Legal services company tries to lay claim to WeThePeople.com. A legal document company that operates at the domain name WeThePeopleUSA.com has lost its attempt to secure the generic domain name WeThePeople.com through UDRP arbitration. In a case decided at National Arbitration Forum, the panel found by a narrow margin that We The People, L.L.C. didn’t have a trademark in the term “We the People”, but only in the term in addition to a drawing. This is not ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2008
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Chad Wright Defends a South Pole(.com) - Follow up: Panel finds against clothing manufacturer. Photo from Wikimedia Commons Here’s a follow up to Domain Name Wire’s story in July about Wicked Fashions filing a UDRP for SouthPole.com. Wicked Fashions manufacturers a line of clothing called SouthPole. Domain owner Chad Wright has won the dispute (full decision from National Arbitration Forum). The panel found that the domain wasn’t registered in bad faith and that the respondent had legitimate interest ... read more ...
Thu 18th September 2008
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Nike and Wells Fargo Join CADNA - Companies join associations representing trademark interests. Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, an organization of mostly Fortune 500 companies, announced today that it has two new members and is concerned about changes at ICANN. Nike (NYSE: NKE) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) have joined the organization. These companies are no strangers to the domain and trademark world. Both companies have filed dozens of UDRPs dating back to 2000. Nike’s most recent victory ... read more ...
Mon 8th September 2008
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Arbitrators Define DeepThroat.com - Arbitration panel finds in favor of domain registrant in DeepThroat.com case. “Honey, I’m just doing some homework for a legal case I’m working on.” That’s what the three panelists in a recent UDRP arbitration through National Arbitration Forum must have told their spouses as they decided the fate of DeepThroat.com. The panel found in favor of the domain owner, who was represented by John Berryhill. The complainant, Arrow Productions, owns the rights to ... read more ...
Thu 4th September 2008
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There’s a Lot of B.S. Around BS.com - Domain name at center of lawsuit and WIPO action. The previous owner of BS.com failed to recover the domain in a WIPO arbitration. In a decision dated September 1, the three person panel found that the complainant failed to prove it had a trademark for the term “BS”. But there’s more to the story. The complainant once owned the domain name from 1997 until 2003. In 2003 the domain name was acquired by Hazan Ozdemir. In 2005 the complainant filed a lawsuit ... read more ...
Tue 2nd September 2008
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New York Times Correctly Defines Cybersquatting - New York Times article offers up correct definition related to trademarks. It seems that the domain industry is quick to pounce on mainstream journalists who broadly define cybersquatting to include what many of us would refer to as domain investing — buying generic domain names. Perhaps we should pat a journalist on the back when he correctly defines “cybersquatting”, as New York Times writer Steve Lohr did in his August 31 article “A New Battle Is Beginning ... read more ...
Thu 28th August 2008
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BMEzine.com Picks adult BME.com in WIPO Dispute - Gregory Ricks loses three character domain name. Long time domainer Gregory Ricks has lost the domain name BME.com to BMEzine.com, LLC. Ricks lost the case because of the content of recent parked pages on the domain and because the panel found that his initial registration in 2000 was not relevant because he transferred the domain between entities since then. BMEzine.com is an ezine about body piercing, tattoos, etc. For the past couple years the domain has shown ... read more ...
 
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Domain Arbitration Inconsistency: FoodEmporium.com/.net/.org - Think UDRP panels are inconsistent? Here’s proof. If you think UDRP panel decisions are inconsistent, look no further than three cases involving New York grocer The Food Emporium. It filed three separate actions under UDRP for FoodEmporium.com, FoodEmporium.net, and FoodEmporium.org. It won .org but lost the other two. There are reasons for the differences, including the registrant of .org not responding to the complaint. But if you read the decisions you’ll ... read more ...
Tue 26th August 2008
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DNN.com: History Behind Domain Name News’ New Domain - Domain Name News has scored the domain DNN.com. But there’s a story behind the domain. Last week domain news site Domain Name News announced that it had acquired the domain name DNN.com for use with its web site. This is a great domain and the team at DNN deserves a tip of the hat. Earlier today I was reviewing UDRP decisions and came across a three character domain decision found in favor of the respondent. As I read the case, it hit me: this is the domain DNN.com, ... read more ...
Fri 22nd August 2008
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Big Companies Go After .Mobi Domain Names - This stems from this commentary and many you have posted in the past. No matter what the occasion, no matter what little ray of good news there is about .mobi, you have to place your own biased slant on .mobi. It is clear, very clear, that you don’t like it, have no use for it, and don’t care to hear about about it. Yet, it is good for the confrontations and good for the controversies it stirs up therefore good for the rankings. Previously, I also had to ask or remind you to look ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2008
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Arbitrator: Fired.com Complainant “Sorely Misguided” - World2Work Corporation loses Fired.com claim; panel has harsh words for company and lawyer. A one person panel has found in favor of the owner of Fired.com in a bizarre UDRP case. World2Work Corporation and founder Scott R. Sargis, which runs the web site Fired.tv, filed a UDRP with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name Fired.com. This is despite not registering the trademark “Fired” until five years after Fired.com was registered. After questioning ... read more ...
Tue 19th August 2008
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Giants Play Ball for GiantsBaseball.com - Major League Baseball continues aggressive campaign for team names. Major League Baseball and the San Francisco Giants want to to get their hands on GiantsBaseball.com. The domain is owned by a Carmel, California man and was registered in 1999, and is subject to arbitration at National Arbitration Forum commenced on August 15. Although the Giants aren’t playing as well as its neighbors the Los Angeles Angels, it should have better luck obtaining this domain ... read more ...
 
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Max Levchin’s Slide Loses Domain Name Challenge - Widget company loses UDRP arbitration for 128 domain names. PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and his internet widget company Slide have lost a UDRP decision to obtain the domain SlideTV.com and 127 other associated domain names. Slide has raised over $50 million to date, and the last round was rumored to have been raised at a valuation north of $500 million. The company provides widgets for use on sites such as Facebook, and some of these widgets include video. The ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2008
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Guest Article: How Do we Become a UDRP Arbitration Panelist? - A look at the qualifications of UDRP arbitration panelists. [Editor’s note: a few weeks ago a couple readers, who were distraught by a recent domain dispute that seemed to be decided unfairly, asked what it takes to be a UDRP panelist who decides domain disputes. I asked Enrico Schaefer, an attorney with Traverse Legal, PLC, to write an article about the UDRP arbitration qualification process.] Domain name disputes are important matters for both trademark holders ... read more ...
Tue 12th August 2008
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Chicago Olympics in 2016? The Games have Begun Online. - Chicago Olympics committee wants to get Chicago2016.com. The Olympic focus right now may be in Beijing for the summer Olympics, but there’s already an Olympic battle in Chicago. Chicago is in the running for the 2016 Olympics and the Chicago 2016’s United States Olympic Committee (USOC) uses Chicago2016.org as its web site. It wants to get Chicago2016.com and has filed for arbitration with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to get the domain name. This ... read more ...
Mon 11th August 2008
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What are Milk Duds? Hershey’s Says It’s Chocolate. - Hershey’s wins MilkDuds.com domain name in National Arbitration Forum decision. When you hear the word “Milk Duds”, what comes to mind? Most people probably think of the milk chocolate covered caramel candy. The owner of MilkDuds.com tried to argue that it had a line of clothing called Milk Duds, with milk referring to cow designs and duds referring to clothing. Hershey, the licensee and manufacturer of the tasty candy, prevailed in arbitration and has won ... read more ...
Thu 31st July 2008
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Wicked Fashions Thinks it Owns The South Pole (.com) - Company files UDRP for generic domain name. Who owns the South Pole?A clothing company thinks it does.Photo from Wikimedia Commons The onslaught of companies trying to steal generic domain names continues. The latest attempt is from Wicked Fashions, Inc., a clothing brand that has a couple trademarks for “SouthPole” for its clothing lines. The company wants to get its hands on SouthPole.com and filed a complaint through Nation Arbitration Forum that commenced ... read more ...
Wed 30th July 2008
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Future Media Architects Prevails Against Equifax for EFX.com - Company wins three character domain dispute. After losing a UDRP for the generic domain name LH.com to airline Lufthansa, Future Media Architects (FMA) has won a case against credit heavyweight Equifax for EFX.com. FMA claimed that Equifax decided to come after the domain name because it saw FMA had lost a couple other acronym domain name cases: Complainant delayed bringing this action for five years and only brought it when it appeared that Respondent had become ... read more ...
Fri 25th July 2008
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World2Work Releases Statement About Fired.com UDRP Case - Company claims rights to domain because prior owner has not used it. After Domain Name Wire posted a story about the Fired.com UDRP case and contacted World2Work Corporation, the complainant, World2Work and its attorney released a statement about the case. The company claims that it should have rights to the domain name based on its 2004 trademark filing and the fact that the current owner of the domain hasn’t used it since it was registered in 1999: “When we ... read more ...