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Court determines it can’t issue default judgment in John Doe suit. A lawsuit filed to recover the allegedly stolen domain name Rat.com has hit a snag in Fairfax County court. Jon Beutler registered rat.com in 1995. He alleges that the domain name was stolen from his GoDaddy account last year...

Company that trademarks old names filed cybersquatting complaint against ChipWich.com. It’s not often that you see a big corporation on the receiving end of a UDRP. But that was the case with a just-decided case involving the domain name ChipWich.com, which is owned by Nestle. The history of...

Porsche service company alleges domain name was stolen from its Network Solutions account. European Performance Engineering, Inc. (EPE) has filed a lawsuit (pdf) alleging that a thief stole the domain name EPE.com from it. The company, which services Porsche vehicles, says that someone gained...

Porsche service company alleges domain name was stolen from its Network Solutions account. European Performance Engineering, Inc. (EPE) has filed a lawsuit (pdf) alleging that a thief stole the domain name EPE.com from it. The company, which services Porsche vehicles, says that someone gained...

Reveel.com stays with mystery owner. A UDRP panel has denied a cybersquatting complaint filed against the owners of Reveel.com. The owner of the domain didn’t register it in bad faith, as it was registered before the complainants had rights in the mark Reveel. The case (pdf) is interesting for...

Reveel.com stays with mystery owner. A UDRP panel has denied a cybersquatting complaint filed against the owners of Reveel.com. The owner of the domain didn’t register it in bad faith, as it was registered before the complainants had rights in the mark Reveel. The case (pdf) is interesting for...

UDRP against Apollo.com will be interesting to read. Apollo.com just got hit with a UDRP. Fashion One Television Limited filed the UDRP. Fashion One launched in 2010 and produces a number of fashion TV shows. I couldn’t find any shows in its stable with “Apollo” in them. Apollo.com is owned...

Muhammad Ali Enterprises has filed its first UDRP to Gain Control of the domain name TheGreatestAli.com. The domain name TheGreatestAli.com was registered by Michael Green of Austin Texas on his date of death June 3, 2016. The domain is going to a site containing pictures of Muhammad Ali and...

Why would you park a domain like this one? There are several reasons that the Chinese owner of F5.net just lost the domain name in a UDRP to F5 Networks, Inc. But one of them should be a warning for owners of short domains: the ads on the parked page were related to the complainant’s business...

DomainKing.biz UDRP loss can help domainers on the receiving end of a UDRP. Earlier this month domain investor Rick Schwartz lost a UDRP–as the complainant. Schwartz filed a UDRP against a domain name registrar over the domain DomainKing.biz. Schwartz has a trademark for Domain King in the...

The domain name WorldTradeCenter.com, was lost in a UDRP along with WorldTradeCenter.net. The one member panel decision was handed down by the On-line ADR Center of the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC). The complainant is the World Trade Centers Association, Inc, who was represented by RODENBAUGH...

Gambling company wants domain name registered in 1993. A cybersquatting complaint has been filed at World Intellectual Property Organization against the domain name Circus.com. Circus Belgium, which operates a gambling website at Circus.be, filed the claim. The domain name is owned by Online...

Nike® is one such famous trademark – although we could argue about how the Greek goddess of victory became a protector of sports shoes. Regardless, Nike® is a famous, strong brand and the company used that to wrestle away the 20 year old Romanian ccTLD domain, Nike.ro. NIKE, Inc. and Nike...

A Chinese beer manufacturer that proclaims to be the “largest in the world,” produces a beer called “Snow Beer.” The holder of the domain SnowBeer.com was hit with a UDRP, for a domain they registered in 2003. The Complainant, who operates from SnowBeer.com.cn, asserts that they produce the...

Entrepreneur Media, the company that publishes Entrepreneur.com, has sued (pdf) yet another hapless entrepreneur who dared used the word “entrepreneur” in their business. The Roos Cohen Group started a Mastermind program (god I hate that term) called Evolving Entrepreneur using the domain name...

Bored with common earth creatures, domain name attorney John Berryhill has apparently moved on to mythical ones. He has successfully defended the domain names Pig.com, Elephant.com,Squirrels.com, Elk.com and Ant.com in previous UDRPs. Now he can add DragonBleu.com (blue dragon) to the list...

Generic words put together can lead to some interesting combinations that infringe on existing trademarks. “Evergreen” is one such word, indicating the perpetuating green foliage of trees or pastures of land, through the year. For that use, the word is clearly generic. Despite all this, when...

Remember affiliate network Pepperjam? An Australian company wants one of its domain names. An Australian lender that uses the brand name “Pepper Money” has failed to get the domain name PepperMoney.com from an old division of eBay. Pepper Group Limited filed a cybersquatting claim against 1075...

Lawsuit involved switching backend providers for three top level domain names. Verisign and XYZ have reached a settlement in one of their ongoing lawsuits. Verisign sued XYZ last year after XYZ acquired the rights to the .theatre, .security and .protection top level domains. The original...

Anything.com which has owned and still owns some great domain names just got his with a UDRP on the domain name Bagley.com According to UDRPsearch.com this is the 7th UDRP filed against Anything.com which won all but one of the UDRP’s Anything has won UDRP’s on the following domain names...