A couple of days ago we wrote about several UDRP decisions all involving famous trademarks and or common typo's of them and I blamed the trademark holder for the problem. Today comes another UDRP decision that points out what I was talking about. This case involved the domain names xboxfitness.com and xboxfitness.net Here is part of the opinion of the one member panel that awarded the … [Read more...]
UDRP: Texaco Gets Control Of Texaco.net; Google Gets GoogleMap.com
Quite a few UDRP rulings out this morning in favor of large public companies and some huge brands. The better question to ask is how did these domain not get registered by the companies in the first place and how secondly what took the companies so long to go after them Texaco won its UDRP on the bang on domain Texaco.net. Texaco.net has a most recent original registration date of 2008 … [Read more...]
Twitter.org; Roomtogo.com Hit With UDRP: GM Wins MyGm.com After Losing MyCadillac.com
A busy sunday morning in the UDRP world with complainants filed by Twitter.org by Twitter.com Rooms to Go over the domain name RoomtoGo.com and a decision handed down this time in favor of General Motors over another "My" domain. Twitter filed its UDRP against the domain name Twitter.org which was registered back in 2005 and according to Screenshot was a parking page as far back as 2006. The … [Read more...]
Marchex is Hit With Another UDRP; This Time On uHealth.com
Marchex (MCHX) has been hit with its 11th UDRP since 2011. This time the domain at issue is uHealth.com The complainant is not listed but the domain name YouHealth.com is under management at CSC Corporate Domains Inc. The domain YouHealth.com has a creation date of 2000. The domain uHealth.com appears to have a creation date of 2002 and appears to have been another one of those domain … [Read more...]
Marchex & Berryhill Win Another UDRP This Time On Guarani.com
The Complainant Guarani S.A. of Sao Paolo, Brazil brought this UDRP against Marchex Sales, Inc, who as usual was represented by John Berryhill, Ph.D. Esq. on the domain name guarani.com The three member panel found that the domain which is a generic dictionary word which, among other things, refers to a South American ethnological group, a group of languages and dialects spoken by that group … [Read more...]
Despite TM Going Back To 1998 & Parked Page UDRP Rejected on In-Case.com
The Complainant Incase Designs Corp. of Chino, California, lost a UDRP to get the domain name In-Case.com, despite the fact that complainant had a trademark in the US dating back to 1998 and that the domain holder was parking the domain. The case seemed to turn on the fact that the term although trademarked was generic, the domain holder owned many other domin names starting with the word "in" … [Read more...]
Despite Attempted Sale For $57K, General Motors Loses UDRP Bid To Get MyCadillac.com
General Motors just lost a UDRP on the domain name mycadillac.com desipte the domain holder offering to sell the domain to GM for as much as almost $57,000 Here is what the domain holder contended: -The Disputed Domain Name is not confusingly similar to the CADILLAC Trademark because “[t]he only similarity that I can find between my domain name and the Complainant’s is the last name of … [Read more...]