The owner of the domain name eMoney.com has just gotten hit with a UDRP. The domain name according to DomainTools.com has an original registration date of 2000 and the registrant/administrative contact still as it was in 2000, a "E Will". The domain name current seems to be directing into an advertising program as opposed to going to a site or a PPC or landing page. The domain was until … [Read more...]
This Is Why There Needs To Be A Penalty For Someone Bringing A Groundless URS
Talk about a waste of time and money. You probably will never find a better case for providing a penalty for someone who brings a groundless Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding than this one. As you may know unlike the UDRP which at least carries a potential "penalty" in the form of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) a URS carries no similar "penalty" In this case the URS involved … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Wins Its 1st URS On Finn.Sexy
Finn.no AS of Oslo, Norway just lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the the domain name Finn.sexy. The domain name is owned by North Sound Names which is a company associated with Frank Schilling, who also owns Uniregistry and of course John Berryhill, Esq represented the domain holder. This is the first URS case decided that involved North Sound Names and the 1st URS represented by … [Read more...]
Meet The 1st New gTLD Serial Cybersquatter, As Farris Nawas of Austin Loses His 3rd URS
The National Arbitration Forum has suspended the domain name registration for SPANX.clothing after an examiner in a Uniform Rapid Suspension proceeding (URS) found the registrant, Farris Nawas of Austin Texas infringed on the trademark of Spandex. Since the only business line Spandex is involved in is clothing, it is the no-brainer type of registration that the URS was designed for. This … [Read more...]
URS Denied On Aeropostale.uno
A Uniform Rapid Suspension examiner, Alan L. Limbury, has denied the complainant of the clothing company, Aeropostale Procurement Company, Inc The domain name aeropostale.uno "Complainant here submitted with its complaint copies of the certificates of registration of seven United States AEROPOSTALE trademarks, four of which are in the name R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., two of which are in the name … [Read more...]
Mittal.CEO Suspended After URS; No Site Was Up & Registrants Name Wasn’t Mittal
The new gTLD domain name, Mittal.ceo was just suspended by a Uniform Rapid Suspension Examiner Villamil Jimenez As we guessed the complainant was ArcelorMittal of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. The Complainant was submitted on March 26, 2014 and the decision is out on March 4th. The Complainant claims (i) that the domain name mittal.ceo is identical or confusingly similar to a word mark for … [Read more...]
Wow That Was Quick; As .CEO Launches Today 1st URS Filed Mittal.ceo
The 1st Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was filed on a .CEO domain name, on the same day the new gTLD .CEO went live for General Availability . The domain name is Mittal.ceo Mittal is a popular surname in India and Wikipedia.org, even has an post on it. Although the Complainant is not yet listed, we should note that there is large steel company by the name of, Mittal Steel Company now … [Read more...]