Tag Archives: UDRP

Thu 28th May 2015
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Key-Systems Wins Control Of RRPproxy.me owned by Founder The of .TK Registry - Key-Systems GmbH won control of the domain name RRPproxy.me in a UDRP The domain appears to be owned by Joost Zuurbier who is the Founder of Freedom Registry which operates the .TK registry the second largest domain name registry in the world with around 30 million registrations. We did an interview with Zoost in March of 2012 which you can read here The domain name was registered in August 2014 and is in pending delete status. Key-Systems owns the domain names rrpproxy.com, rrpproxy.net and rrpproxy.org, ... read more ...
Sat 23rd May 2015
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Must Read This Very Troubling UDRP; 18 Year Old Playworld.com Lost in UDRP After Domain Is Parked - Playworld Systems, Inc. just won control of the 18 year old domain name playworld.com in a UDRP which I find to be very troubling. Playworld Systems owns and operates PlayWorldSystems.com which was registered in 1996. PlayWorld.com was registered on October 30, 1997 Playworld System apparently made an offer of $30K which the domain owner rejected, countering with $120K According to the facts and findings the domain holder at one time turned down $80,000 for the domain years earlier from a third-party. The ... read more ...
Fri 22nd May 2015
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2 domain name owners don't respond though win UDRPs - Panelists do their job by evaluating cases on their merits. The owners of Marlboro.reviews and PoolFactory.com can keep their domain names, despite not responding to UDRPs. Although respondents can win a UDRP without responding, panelists typically give the benefit of the doubt to the complainant in these cases. In one recent case, a panelist even asked the complainant to amend the case to make it easier to side with it! One of the two cases was brought by The Pool Factory, Inc for the domain name ... read more ...
Thu 21st May 2015
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STDCheck.com Wins Rights To STDChecks.com In UDRP Based On Common Law Trademark Rights - FPK Services, LLC d/b/a STDCheck.com (“Complainant”), represented by Brett E. Lewis of Lewis Lin LLC, New York, USA.  just won the rights to the domain name stdchecks.com in a UDRP based on a finding of common law trademark rights The domain name STDChecks.com was registered on April 11, 2014 The Domain name STDCheck.com was registered in August 2012. The one member panel of  John J. Upchurch found that since the domain holder was a former affiliate of the Complainant they had knowledge of ... read more ...
Tue 19th May 2015
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UDRP Filed on SoapBoxDerby.com Domain - A currently unknown entity has filed a UDRP on the domain name SoapBoxDerby.com that has been registered since 2001 and is owned by Vertical Axis. As it currently stands, it appears that Vertical Axis only defense is Laches (14 years since the domain was registered), as a live trademark filed in 1976 may be the ones who filed the UDRP: Owner (REGISTRANT) International Soap Box Derby, Inc. CORPORATION OHIO 789 Derby Downs Drive Akron OHIO 44306 International Soap Box Derby, Inc. uses the domain name ... read more ...
Mon 18th May 2015
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Panelist asks complainant to cgange the box to obstacle domain purebred in 1995 - Domain wasn’t registered in bad faith, but panelist asks complainant to make a different argument. I’m dumbfounded. A single member UDRP panelist with National Arbitration Forum has ordered the domain name VideoLink.com be transferred — after, apparently, asking the complainant to modify its argument to the panelist’s liking. VideoLink, Inc. said it started using the VideoLink term in commerce in 1999. Xantech Corporation registered the domain name in 1995, so the respondent could not have ... read more ...
 
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Stolen domain GPZ.com recovered by cybersquatting claim - National Arbitration Forum panel orders stolen domain name be returned to its longtime owner. An allegedly stolen three letter domain name has been returned to its previous owner through a UDRP cybersquatting claim. Mountain View, California software company GPZ Technology, Inc. registered GPZ.com in 1996. The domain name was apparently stolen from its 11 domain name registrar account earlier this year and transferred to Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC. GPZ provided a police report to the panel. Although ... read more ...
Fri 15th May 2015
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UDRP Panel Finds Laches & Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on CanDoCanines.org - Alan M. Peters / Can Do Canines represented by Paul Schwarzkopf, Minnesota, has been found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name CanDoCanines.org The domain holder, Marilyn Mathis was represented by Steven L. Rinehart, of Utah The Complainant admitted that the domain name was not registered in bad faith but argued was held in bad faith which of course would have doomed his complaint. However the one member panel of Nathalie Dreyfus found the Complainant who just registered their ... read more ...
 
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Doh! UDRP complainant admits domain name not purebred in bad faith - Complainant tries to argue that domain name owner forfeited rights to domain name by not using it. A simple call to a lawyer could have prevented a Minnesota dog charity from being labeled a reverse domain name hijacker. Can Do Canines, which owns the domain name can-do-canines.org, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name candocanines.org. The respondent didn’t have to do much to persuade panelist Nathalie Dreyfus. After all, the complainant admitted ... read more ...
Wed 13th May 2015
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Weigel Broadcasting Co (MeTvNetwork.com) Files UDRP on Me.Tv - Weigel Broadcasting Co. has filed a UDRP on the domain name Me.Tv The domain name is owned under privacy since at least 2005 at Enom.com and it looks like it may have been owned by Enom.com as it went to an Enom.com registration page in 2012 rather than a placeholder according to Screenshots.com The domain went to Channelme.tv for several years for a few years ending in around 2009 according to screenshots.com The last time the domain was not under privacy it was owned by Hot Media, Inc. and Michael ... read more ...
 
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Qatar Airways Loses Attempt To Grab DiscoverQatar.org & QatarTourism.org - Qatar Airways Doha, Qatar, just lost its bid to grab the domain names discoverqatar.org and qatartourism.org in a UDRP which are owned by Travelindex SA The one member panel of Tony Willoughby found the Complaint which owns qatarairways.com slogan on its site “Qatar – Discover the Spirit” did not give it trademark rights nor did the “Discover Qatar” logo which they trademarked. Qatar Airways has also filed a UDRP against the owner of the domain name DiscoverQatar.com, that case is pending. The ... read more ...
 
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Co. Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.UK; Owns New gTLD .Mango -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that sole around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in Dec 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains. Michael was also one of a 5 Judges comparison for a a Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com competition this year.

Via: thedomains.com

Tue 12th May 2015
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Major.com UDRP denied, though no RDNH - A UDRP for a major domain name. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP filed by Major Wire Industries Limited against the owner of Major.com. Panelist Christopher S. Gibson declined to find reverse domain name hijacking, though. Major Wire Industries has been around since the 1800s, and decided to go after Major.com some 130 years after it was founded (and 20 years after Major.com was first registered). The company tried to buy the domain name, but didn’t ... read more ...
 
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Co. With 13K Employees, 2,700+ Stores Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.uk - Consolidated Artists B.V. of  Rotterdam Netherlands was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain names Mango.co.uk and Mango.uk Its only the 5th time in 13 years that a company has been found guilty of RDNH on a .co.uk or .uk domain It should be noted that this is not a UDRP decision. Nominet the operator of the  .uk ccTLD extension has a procedure which is similar to a UDRP but has its own get of rules called a DRS which is published on Nominet’s website at: http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/drs_expert_overview.pdf. And ... read more ...
Mon 11th May 2015
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Kite.com UDRP denied, though no RDNH - Panelist tells complainant to go fly a kite. A single member National Arbitration Forum panel has denied a UDRP filed on the domain name Kite.com, but has not found complainant Kite Solutions, Inc. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Kite Solutions just got a trademark on “Kite” last year, and Kite.com was registered in 1995. It was pretty much a slam dunk case for the domain name owner, but this case introduced some interesting discussion of what happens when a domain name is leased. The ... read more ...
Sat 9th May 2015
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UDRP Files on 15 Year Old Domain Name Colins.com By Colins.com.tr - The domain name Colins.com has been hit with a UDRP by the owner of the website Colins.com.tr Colins.com was registered in 2000. Colins.com.tr was registered in 1997 This is what Colins.com.tr describes the company: “”Colin’s, having the mission of “To make people feel better with the products and services exceeding standards in garment industry” was established in 1983. Colin’s, with its product range consisting of daily clothing, fashion and accessories for men women, procures high-standard ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2015
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Qatar Airways Files UDRP Over 15 Year Old Domain DiscoverQatar.com - Qatar Airways has Filed  a UDRP to get control of the domain name DiscoverQatar.com which seems about generic as it gets to us. The domain name was first registered in 2000 and seems to have been control by the same owner based on DomainTools.com address linked to the domain since at least 2012. The domain name appears to have been parked according to Screenshots.com for at least 10 years or so. In 2013 the Airlines launched a service called Discover Qatar “that allows passengers flying with Qatar ... read more ...
 
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Beautiful People Magazine Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BeautifulPeople.com - Beautiful People Magazine, Inc. has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) The Magazine filed a UDRP on five domain names: BeautifulPeople.com BeautifulPeople.net beautifulwomenonly.com gaybeautifulpeople.com beautifulpeoplegay.com The three member panel of Jeffrey M. Samuels Esq., Jonathan Hudis Esq. and Alan L. Limbury Esq. found the Complainant knew it could not prove bad faith registration of the domain names beautifulpeople.net and beautifulpeople.com, and knew of the ... read more ...
Wed 6th May 2015
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One Member UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On GreatRun.com - Nova Holdings Limited, Nova International Limited, and G.R. Events Limited, of Newcastle upon Tyne, of the UK represented by Bond Dickinson LLP, the United Kingdom (the “Complainants”) was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name GreatRun.com On the issue of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking the one member panel of Gabriela Kennedy found “the evidence presented by the parties demonstrates conclusively that the Disputed Domain Name could not have been registered in bad ... read more ...
 
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Organizer of "Great Run" events intent in retreat domain name hijacking - Panel finds that group brought was attempting to reverse domain name hijack GreatRun.com. Nova International Limited, the company that organizes the Great Run series of events, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP for GreatRun.com. The complainants use the domain name GreatRun.org, which it registered in 2002. Panelist Gabriela Kennedy gave three reasons she believes Nova International brought its case in abuse of the policy: 1. It likely chose a .org domain ... read more ...
Fri 1st May 2015
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HolidayRentals.com Saved In UDRP For The 2nd Time - HomeAway, Inc. of Austin, Texas lost its bid to grab the generic domain name holidayrentals.com in a UDRP. The domain name HolidayRentals.com was saved in a UDRP back in 2002. The domain holder Timothy Hall of the United Kingdom was represented by UDRP POLICE DBS, United Kingdom and was the domain holder for the 2002 UDRP decision as well Here are the highlights of the three panel decision of Nicholas Smith, Tony Willoughby and Adam Taylor: The Complainant is a US company, incorporated in Delaware ... read more ...
Thu 30th April 2015
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ChinesePot.com owners can keep domain name notwithstanding not responding to UDRP - Owner of ChinesePod.com loses case against ChinesePot.com. Language instruction service Chinesepod Limited, which uses the domain name ChinesePoD.com, has lost a UDRP against the owner of ChinesePoT.com. It’s a case of a “typo” also being a common word. The owner of ChinesePot.com didn’t respond to the UDRP, but ChinesePod didn’t convince a World Intellectual Property panelist of the merits of its case. Although the parked page at ChinesePot.com consists of lots of links to language instruction, ... read more ...
Tue 28th April 2015
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StormGuard.com Saved In UDRP - Storm Guard Franchise Systems, LLC v.just lost its bid to grab the domain name StormGuard.com which was just registered on February 6, 2014 The domain owner was represented by ESQwire.com A majority of the three member panel of Willem J. H. Leppink, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was generic and since the registrant was located in South Korea is was unlikely that they knew about the trademark of the Complainant. However, panelist Nicholas Weston disagreed with the majority and filed ... read more ...
Fri 24th April 2015
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Web.com Awarded Netsol.Domains in UDRP - A one member panel ruled in favor of Web.com with regards to the domain name Netsol.domains. The registrant was based out of Spain and it seems tried to sell the domain for $5,000. The registrant did say that the name along with other infringing domains were registered  as part of an automated list generated from software created by Respondent that was designed to generate a list of “best search terms in the AdWords Keywords search engine”.  Respondent indicated that he did not personally review ... read more ...
Thu 23rd April 2015
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Walmart Files UDRP on New gTLD Domain Walmart.LGBT -       Walmart has filed a UDRP on the new gTLD domain Walmart.lgbt. The new domain extension .LGBT,  for those that may not know,  “is the first internet address created specifically for connecting with the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender community.” and is operated by Afilias. Interestedly just a couple of months ago Walmart came out against the “Anti-LGBT Bill“, a piece of legislation in Arkansas where Walmart is headquartered that “opponents say sanctions discrimination against ... read more ...