Horizon Publishing, LLC which is based in Ft Lauderdale, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Opulence.com How bad was Horizon's case? Consider that the domain holder didn't even file a response and the panel on its own initiative found RDNH. Here is what the one member panel Paul M. DeCicco, said in part on the issue of RDNH: "In … [Read more...]
One Week After Launch The First UDRP For A .PW Is Filed By Morgan Stanley
Less than two weeks after the .PW registry went live for domain name registrations, the first UDRP on a .Pw has been filed. The .PW Registry went live on March 25th. A UDRP complaint was filed with the National Arbitration Forum by Morgan Stanley over the domain name morganstanley.pw The domain name is not currently resolving. Of course the question I have is if Morgan Stanley didn't … [Read more...]
Ontario Court Rules In Favor Of George Kirikos On Pupa.com & Awards $4,500 In Fees
George Kirikos company, Leap Of Faith Financial Services, (Leap) just won a declaratory judgement that is was the lawful owner of the domain name Pupa.com and was awarded its court costs, all arising out of a UDRP filed last year by the Italian cosmetics company Micys. (not Macys). In June of last year we told you that a UDRP was filed on the domain name Pupa.com, owned by frequent … [Read more...]
UPDATED: WIPO Awards Twitter The Domain Name Twitter.org
A few days ago we let you know that Twitter won the rights to the domain name Twitter.org by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) The domain name was held under privacy at Moniker.com The domain name has an original registration date of October 2005. The domain name transferred to privacy into privacy in late 2011. The decision has now been issued. The case was a … [Read more...]
Dr. Dre’s Beats Electronics Files UDRP On Beats.co Against Innovation HQ
Beats Electronics, Inc. best know for the Dr. Dre Beats Headphone products known as Beats By Dre just filed a UDRP on the domain name Beats.com The company official website is beatsbydre.com The domain name, Beats.co is owned by Innovation HQ, Inc. and goes to a parked page with music related links but noting directly related to headphones of Dr. Dre's products. Interestingly the domain … [Read more...]
Ticket-Network.com UDRP Rejected A Week After TicketNetworks.com Lost In UDRP
Ticket Software, LLC of South Windsor, Connecticut, just lost a UDRP on the domain name ticket-network.com a week after another UDRP panel ordered the domain name TicketNetworks.com transferred to the same company Here the domain holder didn't even respond. The difference in the TicketNetworks.com case the domain was registered in 2010 well after the Trademark. Here the domain was … [Read more...]
Marchex Gets Hit With UDRP on WebAnywhere.com
A UDRP has just been filed against Marchex Sales, LLC on the domain name WebAnywhere.com The domain name has been owned by Marchex since at least 2008. There is a trademark filed with the USPTO in February 2010 for the term Webanywhere by a Delaware company by the name of WebAnywhere, Inc. which was granted in Feburary 2011 for "website design for others, namely, educational institutions … [Read more...]