A UDRP has just been filed on another descriptive generic domain name GoodTherapy.com
It’s the type of domain name that reminds me of the NiceCar.com UDRP a descriptive two word domain that is used together in a very generic sense in normal language.
The domain name is parked and is currently returning results for rehab centers and doctors.
The domain name has been under privacy since at least 2007 until privacy was lifted in November 2012 only to be recently placed back under privacy in March of this year.
As far as trademarks go their is a trademark with the USPTO on the GoodTherapy.org which was filed on October 24, 2011 and granted on April 3rd 2012
The folks at GoodTherapy.Org filed for a trademark for the term Good Therapy (without the .org) in just March of this year.
Looks like another RDNH attempt, which may come down to the date when the current holder got the .com domain name.
Will smoke them out if they go after my PotTherapy.com
AK Secretary of State says it was Formed: 10/1/2006
GoodTherapy.org website says it was formed in Feb 2007
Yet: USPTO says FIRST USE: 20011001 for all applications
Domain Name:GOODTHERAPY.ORG Created On:12-Dec-2002 20:08:26 UTC
GoodTherapy.com Creation date: 29 Nov 2003 12:45:00
All said – it does not add up for NOAH RUBINSTEIN who says his business stated in feb 2007 according to his goodtherapy.org website
I actually prefer the .ORG extension in certain cases, and in this one, as well. Don’t know why they’d go after the .COM with a UDRP if they really are getting 1.5 million searches and 7 million people (visitors?) per month. Unless of course, they just want it for any leakage that may be occurring because they don’t have it…
Still, while sites like Kiva.org own the .COM, (which then forwards to the .ORG), I think many people have become accustomed to typing .ORG for Kiva.
And if not, if so many people can’t remember something so simple with a well-established non-.COM extension like .ORG, I hold out little hope for owning one of the new gTLDs, which will be much more confusing for potential visitors…
URL Forwarding the .com to the .org captures 90% to 95% of the overall traffic – who is kidding who here 🙂 – and it keeps things looking like a true 501c3 non-profit by showing the .org faceplate.
Its all posturing IMO