The three letter domain name UGN.com which appears to have been owned or under the control of Boca Database Services, Inc since at least 2004, has been hit with a UDRP.
The domain name is not resolving.
The last entry that Screenshots.com has for the domain name is from 2009, and it looks to be an very simply placeholder.
The name of the COmplainant is not listed but their is suprinly only 1 trademark in the USPTO for the term UGN and that was filed on March 1 2014, by United Golf Network, Inc. of Winston Salem NC.
All I can find on The United Golf Network is they have an App in both the Apple and the Android App store.
We will be watching this case.
Smells like Reverse Domain Name Highjacking upon first whiff.
If the Complainant can establish rights and legitimate interest and then show that the Respondent is using the domain name in bad faith they can confiscate the domain. Panels have held inaction on the domain to be bad faith in several decisions. In Telstra Corporation Limited v. Nuclear Marshmallows the panel held, “That is to say, it is possible, in certain circumstances, for inactivity by the Respondent to amount to the domain name being used in bad faith.”
After reading several UDRP decisions, it definitely seems like the wild west when it comes to ownership rights. And personally, if I were to buy a domain costing hundreds of thousands of dollars I would not put a parking page on it and I would not resolve it to a blank page. I’d put a mini site on it that does not have any advertising links.