Tag Archives: UDRP

Thu 24th July 2008
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C.S. Lewis Beats off .Mobi Cybersquatter - C.S. Lewis estate gets hands on Narnia.mobi. I have to hand it to Richard Saville-Smith and his family. Ever since the estate of C.S. Lewis, famous for The Chronicles of Narnia books, filed a UDRP against him for registering Narnia.mobi, his family has put on the pity plea with the media. How could they do this to our child, a big Narnia fan? We only registered it for a personal e-mail address. What horrible big money machine would come after us poor saps? A couple ... read more ...
Wed 23rd July 2008
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Company Goes After Fired.com in UDRP - Here’s a UDRP case that will get domainers “fired” up. A company that filed for a trademark on the term “fired” in 2004 has filed a UDRP against the owner of Fired.com to try to get the domain name. The case commenced yesterday at National Arbitration Forum. Domain Name Wire has learned that World2Work Corporation is the complainant in the case brought against Kurt Ruess. World2Work operates the Fired.tv domain. Reuss runs Contractors.com. World2Work.com ... read more ...
Sat 28th June 2008
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.UK Registry Nominet Gets Nominet.com - Registry for United Kingdom domain names gets .com version of its name through UDRP. Nominet, the registry responsible for managing the .uk country code domain name, has won the domain name Nominet.com through arbitration at World Intellectual Property Organization. The company’s official web site is Nominet.org.uk, but it also owns Nominet.co.uk. The respondent in the case was Hansoo Bae of South Korea. The panel’s decision was rendered in Korean. Bae had ... read more ...
Thu 26th June 2008
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Arbitration Panel Punts on All.com - All.com domain dispute denied by WIPO panel; forgery claims too much to handle. A three member WIPO panel has denied a complaint for the domain name All.com, saying the case is outside of UDRP’s scope. The case involves an alleged sale of the domain name, to which the “buyer” produced documents showing the sale and transfer of money and the “seller” said he knows nothing about. The complainant purchased the domain name in 2005 when it was registered at GoDaddy. ... read more ...
Thu 12th June 2008
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Facebook Wins Facebook.com.au Domain Name - Social networking behemoth wins domain name from Australian company. Facebook has won the Facebook.com.au domain name from Australian company Callverse Pty Ltd. The domain name currently advertises a “click to call service” that is “coming soon”. The decision was handed down by a three person panel at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The decision has not been posted online yet so details of the dispute are not available. Domain Name Wire ... read more ...
Wed 11th June 2008
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Canadian Broadcaster CTV Loses Battle for CTV.com - CTV goes after valuable generic domain name through UDRP and loses. Murat Yikilmaz has successfully defended an attempt by Canadian broadcasting company CTV to take away his three character domain name. CTV currently uses CTV.ca as its domain name. In a 2-1 decision at National Arbitration Forum, the panel found that CTV doesn’t have worldwide exclusive rights to the term “CTV”, and that Yikilmaz’s purchase of the domain to attract traffic was a legitimate ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2008
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Tucker Carlson Gets His Domain Name - Celebrity wins decision for TuckerCarlson.com. Conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson has won rights to the domain name TuckerCarlson.com. The decision handed down through World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) under UDRP on June 2. In Carlson’s complaint, he claimed common law rights to the name “Tucker Carlson”: Complainant states that he is “an internationally famous television news anchor and author, most famous for his role as anchor of ... read more ...
Thu 29th May 2008
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Acronym Domain Name Owners Stave Off Attacks - Owners of three and four character domain names win UDRP decisions. Owning short domain names comes with risks. They are prized domains, and many people want to get their hands on them. The owner of Ace.com recently won its case, but the assaults continue. Here are several recent cases that domain owners managed to win. ANU.com In this case, a company you’ve probably never heard of — Anu Enterprises — went after domain owner DomainRegistry.com. Anu Enterprises ... read more ...
 
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UniversityofTexas.com Handed Over to University - After filing UDRP, owner of domain hands it over. Last month I wrote about a UDRP arbitration request by The University of Texas, which was seeking to get the domain name UniversityofTexas.com. After The University of Texas’ Board of Regents filed the UDRP with National Arbitration Forum, owner Global Access decided to hand it over. According to the decision, “Respondent has no desire to retain the domain name or to interfere with Complainant’s asserted mark. ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2008
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Sk-Rt.com Does a “Kirtsy” - Site gives into domain pressure and changes name. I first wrote about Sk*rt last November, when I said the company should win the grand prize for worst domain name ever (sk-rt.com). I predicted that Skirt Magazine, which ran Skirt.com, would go after Sk*rt.com, and it did. But I also said this would be a dumb move. If Skirt Magazine didn’t run straight to its lawyer, it would have realized it was seeing lots of free traffic from people who were confused by Sk*rt’s ... read more ...
Fri 16th May 2008
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Baylor Bears Go Hunting for Baylor.com - Texas university files UDRP to get Baylor.com domain name. Baylor University, a Christian school in Waco, Texas, has filed a UDRP arbitration to get the domain name Baylor.com. The school’s official web address is Baylor.edu. Baylor has had a good UDRP winning streak lately. The conservative university has won seven cases for dozens of domains already this year. Among the domains it has won are BaylorBears.biz, IHateBaylor.com, and BaylorSalsa.com. It has a ... read more ...
Thu 1st May 2008
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How to Save UDRP from Bad Panel Decisions - A proposal to rectify bad UDRP decisions when there is dissenting opinion. If you read any of the domain blogs and forums out there, you probably read about the recent LH.com UDRP decision courtesy of a three person panel at National Arbitration Forum. The panel handed over the generic domain name LH.com to airline Lufthansa. Apparently two of the panelists (Hon. Carolyn Marks Johnson and David Tatham) didn’t find the irony in their acknowledgment that LH.com’s ... read more ...
Thu 24th April 2008
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Seinfeld Isn’t Laughing about JerrySeinfeld.com - Comedian files arbitration request to get hands on domain name. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld or his management company or Sony is going after the domain name JerrySeinfeld.com, currently owned by Anything.com LTD. The case commenced on April 22 and will be handled by National Arbitration Forum. At first glance, JerrySeinfeld.com looks like a fan site. It has the slogan “An Unofficial Fan site” and includes a bio of the comedian and links to a couple other sites devoted ... read more ...
Thu 17th April 2008
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University of Texas Goes After Domain Name - University files arbitration for UniversityOfTexas.com. The University of Texas System (my alma mater) has filed an arbitration under UDRP to obtain the domain name UniversityofTexas.com. The arbitration was filed with National Arbitration Forum on April 11. The University of Texas has shown is savvy when it comes to domain names. The official domain name for the UT-Austin campus is UTexas.edu, but The University also owns UTexas.com (which forwards to UTexas.edu). ... read more ...
Fri 11th April 2008
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Ace.com Owner Wins Arbitration - After $450,000 offer rejected, ACE Limited filed and lost UDRP arbitration. WebMagic Ventures, owner of Ace.com, has won an arbitration brought against it by ACE Limited, an insurance company. This is an extraordinary case given the value of the underlying domain name and egregious assertions brought by ACE Limited. However, the panel could not charge ACE Limited with reverse domain name hijacking. This is just one of many three character domain names currently ... read more ...
Thu 10th April 2008
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Buyer of $166,000 Shoppers.com Can Keep Domain Name - Domain was purchased in backorder; buyer wins arbitration. Imagine buying a domain for $166,000 through a backorder only to be hit with a UDRP arbitration dispute a day later. That’s exactly what happened to Xedoc Holding SA, which bought Shoppers.com at Pool in February. The domain was previously registered at Network Solutions, but was not auctioned at NameJet due to a glitch. As we reported last month, a UDRP commenced on February 14, 2008 for the domain ... read more ...
Fri 4th April 2008
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YouTube Chases Down YouTube.net - Google files arbitration for Youtube.net. Google (GOOG) and its YouTube division have filed for arbitration under UDRP to get control of the YouTube.net domain name. YouTube.net’s whois record currently shows an owner in China, and the domain appears to have bounced around between a couple different owners over the past year. When this happens, and especially when the whois information may be bogus, trademark owners have few options to get control other than ... read more ...
Thu 3rd April 2008
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Sk*rt Skirts Losing Its Domain - Company with miserable domain name wins arbitration. I wrote about Sk*rt, pronounced skirt, and its horrible domain name sk-rt.com last November. I don’t need to go into the details about why this is such a bad name, but I hypothesized that the owners of Skirt.com would go after Sk-rt.com: Not only is Sk*rt sending typo traffic to Skirt.com, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Skirt.com sued Sk*rt. My advice would be to not do this; just sit back and enjoy the steady ... read more ...
Mon 24th March 2008
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How to Protect Your 3 Character Domain Names - Own a three character domain? You need to play defense. Three letter domain names are valuable. But owning them carries risk: since so many companies have three character acronyms, they often feel they are entitled to your domain. The number of pending and recently settled claims on three character domains is staggering. Here are just a handful I found today: Ace.com Ace.us Dsn.com Rcu.net (claim denied) Own.tv Ucp.com (transferred, domain may have been stolen) Pao.com Kpn.info Tcn.com Cbq.com Cbq.net Cbq.org All.com It’s ... read more ...
Tue 18th March 2008
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Leggo My Eggo! Kellogg Loses Domain Dispute - Food company Kellogg has lost a battle for the domain Eggo.com. Kellogg North America Company, which sells frozen waffles under the “Eggo” brand, has lost a domain dispute for the domain Eggo.com. In its dispute before National Arbitration Forum, Kellogg asserted that the domain name was for sale since it was registered in 2001, probably referring to an Archive.org image of the site that showed the domain for sale at DomainDeluxe. But Kellogg didn’t check ... read more ...
Tue 4th March 2008
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Shoppers.com in Dispute? Also GoogleAdwords.com and Ace.us - Expired domain that sold for $166,000 slapped with arbitration filing. Shoppers.com expired last month and was picked up by Pool. Auction winner Xedoc Holding SA forked over $166,000 for the domain, but is that now at risk? An arbitration request under UDRP was filed with National Arbitration Forum on February 14 for the domain. I’m not sure who filed the complaint, but a little snooping gives some ideas. One idea is the previous owner of the domain may be ... read more ...
Mon 3rd March 2008
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Register.com Goes After Register.cc - Company files arbitration case with National Arbitration Forum. Domain registrar Register.com has filed a UDRP against another ICANN-accredited domain registrar, DomainIt, for its use of Register.cc. DomainIt, which manages 22,354 domains according to RegistrarStats, currently forwards register.cc to its main web site. This is an interesting case on a couple grounds. First, it’s rare to see two ICANN-accredited registrars on opposing sides of a UDRP arbitration. ... read more ...
Thu 28th February 2008
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Tucows Fights off Car Dealership - Tucows wins UDRP decision for Batchelor.com. Domain registrar Tucows has successfully defended against an arbitration proceeding over the domain name Batchelor.com, which the registrar acquired with its NetIdentity purchase. NetIdentity holds nearly 40,000 surnames and offers email addresses at those names, such as tom@lastname.com. The complaint was filed by Ken Batchelor Cadillac Company, a car dealership in San Antonio, Texas. The National Arbitration Forum panel ... read more ...