An interesting UDRP was filed by the dating app Tinder against the domain name TinderBuster.com which is being forwarded to SwipeBuster.com SwiperBuster.com is not a parked page but a service which allows people to see whether someone is active on the app. People might want to search for their significant, boss, friend, family or even favorite or hated politician for a $5 fee. All you need … [Read more...]
2 UDRP’s: Trademark Holder Of Rocket Pay Wins RocketPays.com Loses on RocketPay.com
Two interesting UDRP decisions were handed down today but two different UDRP panelist both involving the trademark holder of "Rocket Pay" In the first case Rocketgate PR LLC went after the direct match domain name rocketpay.com, which was registered in 2002, some ten years before the trademark was filed the sole Panelist Nathalie Dreyfus found for the domain holder in denying the UDRP, however … [Read more...]
NHL.net Registered in 1999 Lost In UDRP To National Hockey League
The domain name NHL.net was lost in a UDRP today. The domain which was registered in 1999 was awarded to the National Hockey League. The one member panel noted the domain name did not resolve, but the domain owner did not respond to the C & D letter sent by the Language and did not respond to the UDRP. The panel also found the domain holder " has had a number of UDRP decisions against … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Domainking.ng Moved To A New Registrar After Rick Schwartz Announced UDRP
The domain name domainking.ng changed registrars yesterday, apparently as a result of our post announcing that Rick Schwartz filed an administrative proceeding similar to a UDRP with the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) which manages the Top Level Domain (.ng ccTLD) based on his "domain King" trademark. The domain name domainking.ng is being used as a domain name registrar and … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Files UDRP To Protect His “Domain King” Mark & There’s More To Come
Rick Schwartz who has been known in the domain community as the "Domain King" has filed an administrative action to gain control of the domain name DomainKing.ng. .Ng is the country code (ccTLD) for Nigeria. Rick not only is commonly known as the Domain King inside the domain community, but has a federally registered trademark on the term "Domain King" in the United States since 2003 (which … [Read more...]
Three Letter Domain, EHF.com Lost in UDRP
A three member UDRP panel just handed over the three letter domain name EHF.com to the European Handball Federation The panel of Flip Jan Claude Petillion, John Swinson and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was parked, listed for sale for $150,000, owned by someone who is in the business of domaining and was registered 5 years after the trademark of the Complainant was filed. It … [Read more...]
WIPO UDRP Filings up 4.6% in 2015
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) "cybersquatting claims" by just 4.6% last year In 2015, 2,754 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) claims were filed, a 4.6% increase on the number in 2014. New gTLDs accounted for 10.5% of the number UDRP's filed. The New gTLDs .xyz, .club and .email were among the most common new suffixes to be the … [Read more...]