G-Hold License B.V. just lost its bid to grab the domain name gsus.com which is owned by Vertical Axis, Inc in a UDRP. gsus.com issued phonetically and slang for Jesus in Spanish. Vertical Axis registered the domain name Respondent registered the disputed domain name on October 14, 2001. Vertical Axis was represented by ESQwire.com The three member panel of Petter Rindforth, The … [Read more...]
Walmart Files UDRP For Walmart.vodka & Walmart.beer; Beyonce For BeyonceShop.com & Beyonceshopping.com
A bunch of UDRP have been filed in the last couple of days Walmart which previously filed and won a UDRP on the domain name Walmart.horse just filed a UDRP on the domain name Walmart.beer and Walmart.vodka. Google filed a UDRP on the 11-year-old domain name GoogleArt.com Beyonce filed two separate UDRP for the domain names BeyonceShop.com which was registered in 2009 and & … [Read more...]
Khloe Kardashian Files UDRP TO Get The Domain Name KhloeKardashian.com
Khloe Kardashian has filed a UDRP TO Get her matching .Com Domain Name KhloeKardashian.com The actual complainant is listed as Khloe Kardashian; Khlomoney, Inc; Whalerock Celebrity Subscription, LLC. The domain name was registered back in 2007. The domain registered under privacy at publicdomainregistry.com The last time the domain name wasn't under privacy was in 2008 when the owner … [Read more...]
By A 2-1 Vote Plumbing Site RooterRooter.com Is Saved From Roto-Rooter in UDRP
Roto-Rooter Corporation just lost its bid to grain control of the domain name RooterRooter.com by a 2-1 vote of a three member UDRP panel. Panelists Richard Hill and David P. Miranda, Esq voted in favor of the domain holder while G. Gervaise Davis, Esq. would have transferred the domain name to the trademark holder. A majority of the Panel found that the term of the the rooterrooter.com … [Read more...]
UDRP Filed To Gain Control of The 15 Year Old Domain Name SharkTank.com
A UDRP has been filed to gain control of the domain name SharkTank.com The domain, SharkTank.com is registered to a Jeff Thomas of North Carolina. According to DomainTools.com the domain was registered in 2000 by Legal Solutions, Inc In 2003 the domain name ownership changed to LeaveLaw.com, Inc. with Jeff Thomas showing as the contact meaning that Mr. Thomas appears to have controlled … [Read more...]
Actor John Stamos Gets His .Com in UDRP; Panel Finds Whois Privacy Corp. A Co-Serial Cybersquatter
Actor John Stamos just won rights to his matching .com domain name JohnStamos.com in a UDRP. David E. Sorkin as the sole Panelist wasted little time awarding the domain name to the actor from Ryan Foo who has lost over 100 UDRP's and has been recoginzed by many UDRP panels as a serial cybersquatter However Mr. Sorkin went even farther finding that the "proxy service", "Whois Privacy Corp" … [Read more...]
On The Wrong Side of a TM Domain? Take An Offer Rather Than a UDRP Loss
We basically know that everything is trademarked at this point Of course there are those who are just straight out cybersquatter, make a living off of typo domains like wallmart.com or Verision.com but all domainers at some point might trip over a domain they didn't know was trademarked or just made a good guess of a forthcoming product. Consider the case of Marriott International, Inc who … [Read more...]