udrp

Company that uses ATProperties.com wanted the “domain hack”. Illinois real estate company @Properties has failed to get the domain name AT.properties in a UDRP. @Properties uses the domain name atproperties.com, and also registeredatproperties in multiple top level domains, including .cc...

A UDRP was filed against the Candi.com domain name at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The complainant in this UDRP is a company called Candi Controls, Inc. Candi.com is a domain name that has a creation date of May 28, 2002. It was actually registered prior to 2002 to a...

Musician gets LadyGaga.mobi domain name through cybersquatting dispute. If you cybersquatted on a bunch of famous peoples’ names on .mobi domain names, would anyone care? Apparently Lady Gaga does. Stefani Germanotta filed a cybersquatting complaint against Nancy Faralisz of The Michigan...

The UDRP against the two letter (LL) .com domain, KQ.com, has been denied. The UDRP was filed at the WIPO back in January by Kenya Airways, that uses “KQ” as its airline code per IATA. Kenya Airways is using the “KQ” IATA designation as part of its brand Registered in 1996, the domain KQ.com...

An interesting UDRP was filed by the dating app Tinder against the domain name TinderBuster.com which is being forwarded to SwipeBuster.com SwiperBuster.com is not a parked page but a service which allows people to see whether someone is active on the app. People might want to search for...

Two interesting UDRP decisions were handed down today but two different UDRP panelist both involving the trademark holder of “Rocket Pay” In the first case Rocketgate PR LLC went after the direct match domain name rocketpay.com, which was registered in 2002, some ten years before the trademark...

A UDRP has been filed against the Patricks.com domain name. The complainant is listed as a company called Patricks Universal Export Pty Ltd. A Whois record shows that Patricks.com was originally registered in December of 1997. The domain name is currently parked, and I presently see advertising...

Company that owns Highbrow.com paid about $20,000 for the domain name. The owner of an online publication at HighbrowMagazine.com has threatened the owners of Highbrow.com, demanding that they turn the domain name over to her. Highbrow.com’s owner has filed a lawsuit in federal district court...

Company that uses a confusing .me domain name wants a better .me. The owner of ApproveMe.me has lost a cybersquatting complaint if filed against the owner of Approve.me. A single-member World Intellectual Property Organization panel found that Approve.me has legitimate rights and interests in...

A three member UDRP panel just handed over the three letter domain name EHF.com to the European Handball Federation The panel of Flip Jan Claude Petillion, John Swinson and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was parked, listed for sale for $150,000, owned by someone who is in the...

Panel orders valuable domain name transferred. A three-member National Arbitration Forum panel has ordered the domain name ZT.com transferred in a cybersquatting complaint. We’re talking about what could be a seven-figure asset here, and also a two-letter domain that can be used for many...

Company argued site at Michaels.ca infringed its marks. A Canadian appeals court has confirmed that crafts store chain Michaels (NASDAQ:MIK) should be awarded the domain name Michaels.ca. The loser: a guy whose last name is Michaels. David Michaels registered the domain name in 2001. In 2009...

Nat Cohen’s company, Telepathy, Inc., maintains a strong portfolio of generic domain names; according to company policy, they redirect inquiries via SecuredOffers.com. There is a $19 dollar charge per inquiry. By doing so, Telepathy, Inc. filters out the casual stream of spam, lowball offers...

According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) “cybersquatting claims” by just 4.6% last year In 2015, 2,754 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) claims were filed, a 4.6% increase on the number in 2014. New gTLDs accounted for 10.5% of the number UDRP’s...

The domain name ButtonMakers.com which was registered by the domain holder in 2007 was just lost in a UDRP to Rockstar Industries, LLP which registered a trademark in 2014. The one member panel of Dr. Katalin Szamosi found the Complainant had established common law trademark rights to the term...

A cybersecurity firm has been busted for trying to nab a domain name through a baseless cybersquatting claim. Israeli company Cyberbit Ltd, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems Limited, has been found to have attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Cyberbit.com. A World...

Company loses Halifax.com after trying to get Bank of Scotland to buy the domain name. A company in the United Kingdom just lost a domain name it paid $175,000 for in a UDRP. It should be viewed as a lesson on what not to do with a domain name that has both a generic/geo value as well as that...

The estate of Michael Jackson has filed a lawsuit against the KingofPop.com. The website sells popcorn and was purchased back in 2012, it was a former Michael Jackson fansite. The estate claims the site tried to defend its use of the popular MJ moniker by saying the word “pop” is a “nickname...

French company wanted the .com to go with its .fr domain name. John Berryhill has successfully defended the domain name Kosmos.com on behalf of Sahar Sarid’s company Ashanti PLC. Complainant Kosmos SAS is an education technology company that uses the domain name Kosmos.fr. It incorporated on...

Australian fashion designer Kym Ellery has secured the premium generic domain name, Ellery.com, potentially through a UDRP filing. I checked several sources this morning and the UDRP status (case active) has not updated at time of this posting, yet late Sunday the domain name transferred...