Nissan Motors has just lost it first Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding after winning ten URS in just December. Richard W. Hill, as Examiner declined to suspend the domain even though the domain holder failed to respond. The opinion is completely devoid of any reason of why the complaint was dismissed, or how it varied from the other 10 URS Complaints that won Nissan on new gTLD … [Read more...]
Aeropostale Wins 1st Uniform Rapid Suspension Appeal On Aeropostale.Uno
The clothing company Aeropostale has won what we believe is the first appeal of a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding. Back in April a URS examiner Alan L. Limbury,denied the Complaint of Aeropostale Procurement Company on the domain name aeropostale.uno finding that "Complainant here submitted with its complaint copies of the certificates of registration of seven United States … [Read more...]
Nissan Files 12 Separate URS Cases On New gTLD’s Spending Over 50% The Cost Of What A Block Would Have Cost
Nissan which sold Z.com for $6.8 million dollars a few weeks ago filed 12 separate Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) cases with the National Arbitration Forum over the weekend. For about 3K per brand, or $9K Nissan could have bought a block with Donuts which would have blocked any of new gTLD domain name in these three brands from being registered over all Donuts extensions, which I believe all of … [Read more...]
URS Examiner Hands Over PPR.Wang Without Even Citing Complainant’s Trademark
KERING of Paris, France just won a proceeding under the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy to get the domain name PPR.Wang Suspended Mr. Sebastian Matthew White Hughes, was the Examiner who found that KERING owned a trademark on the term "PPR" The problem I have with this decision is that the Examiner didn't take the time to mention where the trademark was granted, what is was granted for … [Read more...]
Houston We Have A Problem: 2 URS Examiners Can’t Agree If The Same Company Owns A Trademark
My man Raymond Hackney who writes posts for thedomains.com, as well as his own blog at tldinvestors.com, pointed out two diametrically opposed URS decisions filed by the same complainant Aeropostale Procurement Company, Inc. of New York, one of which concludes they own the trademark to the clothing line of Aeropostale and the other examiner finding they do not. In the Uniform Rapid Suspension … [Read more...]
FC Barcelona Loses Attempt To Grab The Domain Name: FCB.email
FC Barcelona just lost its attempt to score the domain name FCB.email away from Joerg Lindemer of Neuenburg, Germany in a Uniform Rapid Suspension proceeding (URS). The Football Association Premier League Limited did much better winning a UDRP on the new gTLD premierleague.club, (here is the link to that case) Here are the highlights of the FC Barcelona case in which the Examiner was Piotr … [Read more...]
YoYo.Email Defends URS on eharmony.email By Attaching A Copy Of Its Recently Filed Suit
Andrew over at DomainNamewire.com has been covering the myriad of URS cases filed again YoYo.Email and today the company successful defended a URS against eHarmony based it seemed on the lawsuit it filed last week. The examiner Honorable Karl V. Fink (Ret.), cited the lawsuit between Complaint in Yoyo.Email, LLC v. Playinnovation, LTD (filed August 29, 2014, United States District Court for … [Read more...]