A name from the past is back in the news, this time the second coming of Napster located at Napster.Fm was hit with a UDRP by online subscription service Rhapsody International, Inc. Rhapsody owns Napster.com and purchased the company a few years back. Napster.FM has been registered since March of 2012 by Napster.fm LLC. The website does not look to be operable as the top menu is blurred out … [Read more...]
Have Trademark Holders Given Up On The URS? Last 17 Disputes Filed, 15 Were UDRP’s
Have trademark holders given up on the Uniform Resolution Service? The URS is something that trademark holders and their representative pushed for at ICANN for years. A cheap, quick take down on obviously trademark infringing new gTLD domain registrations. Although the URS is exactly that a much cheaper and quicker process than a UDRP, if a trademark holder wins a URS the domain … [Read more...]
URDP Panel Is Not On Nationwide’s Side Denying Bid To Grab 3 Domains
A one member UDRP panel refused Nationwide Insurance Company bid to grab three domain names containing the word "nationwide" The three domains at issues were; The Respondent registered the disputed domain name nationwideautolending.com on January 5, 2006, nationwideautoapproval.com on April 3, 2006, and nationwideautocredit.com on November 18, 2010. Two of the three domains resolve to active … [Read more...]
Owner Of Ruraliving.com A $7 Billion Company Loses UDRP On RuralLiving.com
AgStar Financial Services, ACA (“Complainant”), just lost its bid to grab the domain name RuralLiving.com from Ashantiplc Ltd, who was represented by John Berryhill, Esq. , who also in full disclosure represents our company in UDRP cases. The complainant owns the domain name Ruraliving.com (missing the other letter "L") along with a trademark on the term (also with the missing "L") The … [Read more...]
UGN.com Under Same Ownership For 10+ Years Hit With UDRP
The three letter domain name UGN.com which appears to have been owned or under the control of Boca Database Services, Inc since at least 2004, has been hit with a UDRP. The domain name is not resolving. The last entry that Screenshots.com has for the domain name is from 2009, and it looks to be an very simply placeholder. The name of the COmplainant is not listed but their is suprinly … [Read more...]
TechCrunch.com Wins Rights To The The Hack Domain TechCrun.ch in UDRP
A one member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name hack of Techcrun.ch to the publisher of Techcrunch.com which also owns the domain name TechCrunch.ch For those that don't know a domain hack is where a registrant uses a domain extension, typically a two letter country code (ccTLD) to spell a word. In this case the .Ch extension is the country code for Switzerland and since its a ccTLD … [Read more...]
MSC.com Purchased At Sedo Auction For $48K In December Saved In UDRP
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company Holding S.A. of Geneva, Switzerland, just lost its attempt to grab the domain name MSC.com Its an interesting case because the domain name was acquired by the domain holder Paul Kocher, in a Sedo auction for $48,000 in December 2013 Actually Jeremiah Johnston of Sedo represented the domain holder. After the auction the trademark holder offered to buy the … [Read more...]