The owners of the domain names 123.com and 222.com have been hit with a UDRP.
The UDRP was filed by Abb Asea Brown Boverti LTD which seems to be part of the ABB Group which own the domain name ABB.com and ABB.us with the The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center (the ADNDRC).
According to Wikipedia.org, ABB is a multinational corporation headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, operating in robotics and mainly in the power and automation technology areas. It ranked 158th in the Forbes Ranking (2013).
ABB is one of the largest engineering companies as well as one of the largest conglomerates in the world.
ABB has operations in around 100 countries, with approximately 150,000 employees in November 2013, and reported global revenue of $40 billion for 2011.
ABB is traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zürich and the Stockholm Stock Exchange in Sweden since 1999, the New York Stock Exchange in the United States since 2001.
The domain name 123.com is owned by Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A whose site is entel.cl.
222.com seems to be owned by a LinYu of China and the domain is a Chinese site, 222.com
The third domain in the same UDRP is abb-plc.com which is owned by a JACH CHENG of Hong Kong who is listed as the respondent in the UDRP numbered CN1400745
I have no idea off hand what the complainant’s claim to 123.com or 222.com is based on.
123.com was reg’d in 1995 and 222.com in 1998. They both are developed sites, although 123.com forwards to entel.cl, which is also owned by Empresa.
The best thing to know about ABB though, is that they are committed to a high standard of INTEGRITY. (It says so right on their home page, so it must be true.) So based on that, I’m sure they have every right to both 123.com and 222.com.
Sarcasm aside, (not really) I Googled “123 abb” and found that there is a product (a bus connection module!) that uses the number “123” made by ABB. The same goes for “222” and another exciting product ABB makes. So at this rate, they could potentially file UDRPs on a slew of numbers… best of luck to them.