Tag Archives: world intellectual property organization

Mon 4th January 2016
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Another UDRP that should have never been filed - iCloak.com was registered many years before the complainant had rights to iCloak. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has rejected a UDRP for the domain name iCloak.com. It’s another example of a case that was dead on arrival, and one that future UDRP rules should prevent from being filed. Simply put, the complainant tried to get a domain name that was registered well before it was in existence. The complainant operates an internet privacy service called iCloak, promoted at the website ... read more ...
Wed 9th December 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
The late Igal Lichtman, aka Mrs Jello, loses a terrible UDRP decision - Panel re-writes UDRP and “registered in bad faith” requirement. The heirs of the late Igal Lichtman, commonly known in domain name circles as Mrs Jello, have lost a UDRP decision for the common name Camilla.com. The case was filed by Australian clothing company Camilla Australia Pty Ltd, which uses the domain Camilla.com.au. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel determined that, even though the domain name was registered prior to the Complainant having rights in the (common ... read more ...
Thu 19th November 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
RDNH should have been deliberate in BankWell.com decision - Panelist gets decision correct but doesn’t consider reverse domain name hijacking. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has denied New Canaan, Connecticut-based Bankwell Financial Group in its cybersquatting complaint against Bankwell.com. However, panelist Peter Dernbach did not consider if Bankwell engaged in reverse domain name hijacking by bringing the case. He probably should have. The same owner has had the domain name since he registered it in 2003. Bankwell wasn’t formed ... read more ...
Mon 24th August 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Khloe Kardashian gets her (domain) name - Khloe will get domain name registered shortly after her first TV appearance. TV celebrity Khloe Kardashian has won a cybersquatting dispute, and will soon by the proud owner of the KhloeKardashian.com domain name. Kardashian and her agents filed the case against the domain name with World Intellectual Property Organization nearly two months ago. The domain name did not resolve to a web page at the time, but it was parked prior to that. It was also listed for sale on GoDaddy, but the listing has been ... read more ...
Wed 29th July 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
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 ...
Thu 16th July 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
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 ...
Tue 12th May 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
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 ...
Wed 5th February 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Paris Hilton wins box to take down sex video site - Arbitration panel sides with celebrity in domain name dispute. Socialite Paris Hilton has won a cybersquatting case she filed against the owner of a site that offered her sex tapes. Hilton filed the case with World Intellectual Property Organization against the owner of parishiltonpornvideos.com last year. The decision was just handed down in her favor. Unless the owner of the site files a lawsuit, that means the domain name will be transferred to Hilton within ten ... read more ...
Mon 6th January 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Gucci wins 182 domain names in a UDRP - Gucci wins a lot of domain names in a UDRP decision. Italian design firm Guccio Gucci S.p.A. has won 182 domain names in a UDRP. It’s one of the highest number of domain names I’ve seen transferred in a single UDRP, although there have certainly been larger cases. The case was filed against Brian E. Nielsen of “Boise, New York”. There doesn’t appear to be a city of Boise in New York, and Gucci claimed the whois information was bogus. It also alleged that ... read more ...
Thu 5th December 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Standard & Poor’s loses domain name dispute - Financial services company and rating agency can’t have “boycott” domain name, panel rules. Standard Poor’s has lost a UDRP against the domain name BoycottStandardandPoors.com at World Intellectual Property Organization. The domain name owner argued that he’s exercising his first amendment rights by owning the “gripe” style domain name. The panel determined that the domain name could be used as a gripe site and be protected, so it denied Standard Poor’s ... read more ...
Tue 24th September 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Axis TLD appears passed after WIPO decision - WIPO decides not to accept late response to objection. World Intellectual Property Organization has made a determination that it will not accept a late response to a Legal Rights Objection against .axis, thereby effectively killing off Saudi Telecom Company’s bid for the top level domain. Axis Communications AB filed the objection against the .axis application. Saudi Telecom then submitted its response to the objection too late. This resulted in ICANN Ombudsman ... read more ...
Tue 27th August 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Kudos to a World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO’s online reporting functionality beats its competitors. I write a lot of articles bashing decisions made by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panelists in UDRPs. So I think it’s only fair that I give the group props when it’s deserved. The new top level domain name objection process has reminded me how WIPO’s online reporting systems are way, way better than the competition. Three organizations are handling top level domain name application ... read more ...
Fri 16th August 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Here’s Del Monte’s WEIRD lawsuit to overturn .delmonte decision - Del Monte International uses cybersquatting and UDRP rules in attempt to overturn .delmonte objection. Yesterday I wrote about Del Monte International (DMI) Gmbh’s lawsuit against Del Monte Corporation (DMC) after the latter won its objection to the former’s application for the .delmonte top level domain. The court has now published the complaint (pdf). On the surface, I understand the complaint. DMI is trying to argue that the World Intellectual Property Organization ... read more ...
Wed 5th June 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Scammy consult site beats Tumblr in domain dispute - Lawyers don’t provide enough evidence to convince panel that domain was registered in bad faith. Tumblr, the company that Yahoo is acquiring for $1.1 billion, has lost a cybersquatting claim for the domain name tublr.com. In its complaint filed with World Intellectual Property Organization, Tumblr argued the domain name was registered as a typo of Tumblr.com to take advantage of the blogging site. The company is probably right. Type Tublr.com into your web browser ... read more ...
Tue 23rd April 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domain settlement cases corner adult somewhat in 2012 - …but trail the growth in domain name registrations. National Arbitration Forum (NAF) has released its official numbers for 2012 UDRP cases. Combined with World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) results, the number of UDRP cases filed last year appears to have edged up slightly. NAF reported a total of 2,060 cases for 2012 last year, which was 22 fewer than in 2011. WIPO earlier reported 2,884 cases, up from 2,764 in 2011. Between the two biggest UDRP ... read more ...
Mon 11th March 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Procter & Gamble guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Consumer products giant provided false sales numbers to WIPO panel. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Procter Gamble guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain swash.com. Marchex has owned the domain name since 2004. PG launched a new brand called Swash several years later. In its complaint, PG originally stated that it had generated more than $40 million in Swash sales over the past four years. It also claimed some ... read more ...
Wed 20th February 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
ECommerce association Eyemagine found guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Company claimed rights to domain registered in 1996, well before it started using the name as a brand. Irvine, California eCommerce technology company Eyemagine Technology LLC has been found by the World Intellectual Property Organization to be guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company, which says it started using the Eyemagine brand in 2003, filed the complaint against a construction company that registered the domain eyemagine.com way back in 1996. The ... read more ...
Tue 12th February 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Cincinnati Zoo gets CincinnatiZoo.com eleven years later - Zoo moved slower than a turtle but will now get CincinnatiZoo.com. It took them a while, but one of the nation’s oldest zoos now has its .com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ordered the domain name CincinnattiZoo.com be transferred to the Zoological Society of Cincinnati, dba Cincinnati Zoo. The zoo has used the domain name cincinnatizoo.org since 2001, which was the same year the .com was registered. A lot of people likely went ... read more ...
Fri 8th February 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Stratfor aims to take down site about hack - Intelligence firm wants to take down site that discusses 2011 hacking incident. Stratfor Enterprises, LLC, an intelligence firm that was famously hacked in 2011, is trying to get control of a domain commemorating the attack. The company has filed a complaint with World Intellectual against the owner of Stratfor.co. Stratfor.co shows an image of what Stratfor.com looked like after it was hacked and defaced in 2011. The hack, carried out my members of anonymous, resulted ... read more ...
Wed 6th February 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Tumblr files 9 cybersquatting complaints - Blogging platform cracks down on cybersquatters. Blogging service Tumblr has filed 9 separate cybersquatting complaints in the last two weeks. The complaints, filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy with World Intellectual Property Organization, cover typos of its main Tumblr.com domain name. The domains include: tumlr.com tubmlr.com tumbllr.com tublr.com tumbl.com tumblor.com tmblr.com wwwtumblr.com tumbr.com The domains all show different owners ... read more ...
Tue 11th December 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
UDRP filed opposite dual minute domain Yu.com - Are Yu serious? A UDRP has been filed against the owner of the two letter domain name Yu.com. The case was filed by Two Way NV/SA at World Intellectual Property Organization. It’s unclear who owns the domain. It has been protected by Moniker whois privacy for the past two years. Prior to that it was protected by NameView privacy, which means there may be a connection to Kevin Ham. The most recent non private registration record I can find at DomainTools is a 2006 ... read more ...
Thu 4th October 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
L.A. association denied possibility to use dot.com bust Kozmo.com’s domain name - Kozmo.com may be defunct but it’s domain registration lives on. In July I wrote about how Los Angeles company Yummy Foods, LLC wanted to relaunch the Kozmo.com delivery brand. Kozmo.com was one of the biggest dot.com busts. It raised around $250 million in order to deliver a pack of gum to your house with no delivery fee. Yummy Foods has two trademarks for “kozmo” for delivery of food and other goods. But despite Kozmo.com going out of business over a decade ... read more ...
Mon 10th September 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
GEICO wins GEIC.com domain name dispute - Insurance company wins control of domain name that leaves off the ‘o’. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded the four letter domain name GEIC.com to insurance giant GEICO. The owner of the domain name did not respond to the complaint. Although GEIC.com could certainly be used for a number of legitimate purposes, the recent history of the domain name shows that it generally has been used to take advantage of its similarity to the insurance ... read more ...
Thu 30th August 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
UDRP cybersquatting complaints boost in initial half of 2012 - Two largest UDRP services saw increased activity in first half of the year. The number of cybersquatting complaints filed in the first half of 2012 was up 9% compared to the first half of 2011. That’s according to data provided by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and National Arbitration Forum (NAF), the two largest arbitration services for the uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP). WIPO received 1,764 cases in the first half of this ... read more ...
Mon 20th August 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
UDRP panelists don’t do their pursuit determining retreat domain name hijacking - Panelists don’t always consider RDNH when asked, and both WIPO and NAF don’t seem to care. On Friday I wrote about the UDRP decision for AboutDotMed.com et al. This morning I read the decision for J-brand.com. In both cases the respondents won. In both cases the respondents asked for reverse domain name hijacking. But in neither case did the panelist make a decision (either way) about reverse domain name hijacking. Yet the World Intellectual Property Organization ... read more ...