Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC  just lost a UDRP on its big to grab the domain name, BoycottStandardandPoors.com Unlike the UDRP decision we just wrote about which seemed to turn on the fact that the domain name didn't resolve, this three member panel refused to transfer the domain largely because the domain name did not resolve finding since the domain did not resolve S&P … [Read more...]

Wafu Inc. of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was just awarded the rights to the domain name WAFU.com a domain that was registered on March 8, 2000. The Complainant owns some trademarks in Cananda the one's cited by the panel are dated June 23, 2008 another dated November 17, 2003. However  "The Complainant contends that the registration date of the disputed domain name is March 8, 2000, nearly one … [Read more...]

Vassilios Pantazopoulos just lost his bid to grab 4 domains including SellMyApp.com with the three member UDRP panel finding the Complainant failed to meet any of the three elements required for a successful UDRP. The domain holder was represented by Zak Muscovitch of The Muscovitch Law Firm sellmyapp.com sellmyapp.net sellmyapplication.net sellmyapplication.org Here are the … [Read more...]

The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center, in a one member UDRP decision rejected the attempt of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council to grab the generic domain name ALMC.com The domain holder was represented by David E. Weslow of Wiley Rein LLP. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel: The Complainant is a statutory body corporate in Hong Kong, … [Read more...]

8x8, Inc. (“Complainant”), owner of the domain name 8x8.com just won a three member panel against 8x8 Mediacom Services Ltd  represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com, New Jersey, USA on the domain name 8x8.net which was registered back on August 8, 2001. Complainant states that it provides hosted business VOIP phone services and a wide variety of cloud-based communications services and … [Read more...]

Rain Forest , SL of  Madrid, Spain just won the UDRP lottery and got the generic domain name RainForest.es The decision was handed down in Spanish and we used Google translate into English The panelist Albert Agustinoy Guilayn has some pretty disturbing language in this decision: The Respondent is the holder of many generic domain names , most of which are publicly offered for sale . … [Read more...]

A one member UDRP panel refused to allow BuyDomains.com to unilateral consent to transfer the Domain Name Shiseido.net to the Complainant, Shiseido Company of Tokyo, Japan, and went ahead and issued its opinion ordering the transfer of the domain. BuyDomains.com tried to agree to the consent to transfer while still maintaining that its did not register the domain name in bad faith. The panel … [Read more...]