The car maker Jaguar/Land Rover Has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name MountainRovers.com. The domain name was  owned and used by the domain holder since 1998. The domain name holder did not file a response to the UDRP Not only did the one person National Arbitration Forum panel find that Land Rover guilty of RDNH it found that claim was barred by … [Read more...]

TOGU Gebruder Obermaier oHG of Prien-Bachham, Germany, just lost a UDRP on the domain name Togu.com. The domain owner Port Media Domains was represented by Esquire.com Its not clear to me why the panel did not find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) as the domain name is 13 years old, and was registered prior to the Complainants trademark registration. The panel did not address the … [Read more...]

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc makers of the widely popular Grand Theft Auto games, filed a UDRP's today against Mike Mann's Domain Asset Holdings, LLC on four domain names with WIPO. All four domain names are listed for sale at Mike Mann's DomainMarket.com. Here are the domains, registration date and the Buy It Now (BIN) price listed for each of the domain names on … [Read more...]

In what I consider a very troubling and horrible decision, A one member UDRP panel has awarded a domain names welldonebbqs.com and welldonebbqcleaning.com to a Complainant who didn't have a registered trademark, on the basis doing a whopping $11,000 in gross revenue, having $1,000 in a bank account and distributing 2,000 flyers. I have comments that follow this really bad … [Read more...]

Ceat Mahal a tire manufacturer located in India, filed a UDRP against BuyDomains.com on the domain name Ceat.org Buydomains.com appears to have picked up the domain name on a drop in late 2012. The Tire manufacturer appears to be a public company and owned the domain name Ceat.com The domain name Ceat.org is going to a generic parked page and of course has a "for sale" on the top. Ceat … [Read more...]

Hermes International is what seems to be a huge waste of money to this author, just filed a UDRP seeking control of 182 .Org domain name all containing the word Hermes. Renewal fees of these domain name alone even at Godaddy.com rates over $1,500 a year. Not sure any of of these domain names are worth the $8 a year to register or renew not to mention the $1,500 filing fee and attorney fees … [Read more...]

Several companies joined forces to file a single UDRP to gain control 17 domain name. The company's filed the UDRP were Alexa Internet, Amazon Technologies, Inc, eBay Inc., Elance, Inc. and PayPal, Inc. Most of the recovered domain name awarded by the UDRP panel were typo's but Amazon won control of the domain name Kindle6.com, Kindle7.com Kindle8.com Here is the complete … [Read more...]