ADT, the Alarm company, just lost a UDRP on the domain name adtdealers.com which was registered on November 11, 2003.  The domain holder did not file a response.  The content of the adtdealers.com domain name  appears to be complaints and plights from consumers who have become weary of the aggressive and hard-line tactics employed by Complainant’s affiliates and suggests that Internet users … [Read more...]

The domain name ParkRoyal.com owned by Vertical Axis, Inc. has just been hit with a UDRP for the second time. The complaint was filed by, Grupo Costamex, S.A. de C.V. (COSTAMEX) Operación y Supervisión de Hoteles, S.A. de C.V. (OPYSSA) who has a trademark on the term for Travel club services; travel agency services, filed in February 2005 There are several US Trademarks for this term, one … [Read more...]

Complainant Canary LLC just was awarded the domain name canary.com by a one member National Arbitration Forum Panel Canary is in the dictionary and is a type of bird. The decision was published in Chinese and translated into English by Google. The decision in pretty disturbing because the panel incorrectly states as matter of law that the fact the domain was parked is equivalent to … [Read more...]

Reliance Telecom Limited of Mumbai, just lost a UDRP on the domain name RelianceGroup.com which was registered on September 21, 1997. The domain holder did not respond to the UDRP but won any way. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel: Reliance uses the domain name relianceadagroup.com for its main website but owns some 500 domain names with the word Reliance in … [Read more...]

PPA Media Services / Ryan G Foo lost three separate UDRP decisions with three separate complainants all handed down yesterday. In the 1st case brought by Sirius XM Radio Inc., the domain at issue as the typo Sriusxm.com amazingly it took the trademark holder 7 years to being the UDRP: "Complainant argues that Respondent registered the sriusxm.com domain name on July 29, 2008, one day after … [Read more...]

CoorsTek, Inc. which owns the domain name FlowGuard.com lost its bid to grab the domain name flow-guard.com with the majority of the panel finding that the trademark holder waited to long and was barred by the doctrine of latches from making the complaint. FlowGuard.com was registered on March 24, 1998. Flow-Guard.com was registered on August 15th, 1996 The domain holder was represented … [Read more...]

Drug manufacturer Hoffmann-La Roche just lost a UDRP on the domain name diet-xenical.com. Its a pretty amazing decision considering that Xenical is  a trademark term for a diet drug, the domain holder didn't even response to the complaint and the domain resolves to a website that advertises Generic Xenical for sale. Here are the relevant findings from the one member panel: The disputed … [Read more...]