The domain name Colins.com has been hit with a UDRP by the owner of the website Colins.com.tr
Colins.com was registered in 2000.
Colins.com.tr was registered in 1997
This is what Colins.com.tr describes the company:
“”Colin’s, having the mission of “To make people feel better with the products and services exceeding standards in garment industry” was established in 1983.
Colin’s, with its product range consisting of daily clothing, fashion and accessories for men & women, procures high-standard resources from all around the world in addition to its own manufacturing abilities.
Colin’s offers “new”, “fit” and “quality” concepts at its stores worldwide at once. It aims to manufacture better with bold, free, innovative and open-to-change concept.
It is proud of being one of the most dynamic players in garment industry of the world with its more than 600 stores in 38 countries.”
You can see all the countries that the comapny has stores at another domain they own colins.ru
The domain name Colins is owned by a Jake Messinger of Texas.
Colins.com has a pretty unique message on the site:
| COLINS.COM “Welcome” |
Today is May 09, 2015 I’m a college student, learing how to make web pages.
My dad registered this domain name for me 15 years ago.
To contact me, fill out this form
Colin’s is a very famous clothing brand in Europe and the Middle East, but it’s clear that the ownership and use of this domain is very personal, hence constitutes fair use. Let’s hope the owner will actually respond to this UDRP.
He must not be doing well in college if he doesn’t know how to spell “learning”…
Would love to see the out come of this udrp soon
The domain name was first captured by Wayback Machine in 1998 and I have not found any parked pages ever used on the domain name. I’m very interested in knowing why a UDRP complaint has been filed against the domain name owner.
I see this as an abuse of the UDRP or the complainant knows little about internet laws.
I registered this domain name for my son, Colin, when he was just a few years old so he could use it when he got older. I responded to the UDRP filing in a timely and correct manner. We have never violated any UDRP WIPO rules.
FYI, the complaint was denied and my son will be able to continue to use the domain name colins.com for personal reasons and email. Hopefully the Complainant will not pursue this further.
The panel found that the complainant was able to establish only the first of the 3 points:
1. Confusingly similar to a trademark – Complainant point accepted.
2. Legitimate right – the Respondent has a legitimate right – Complainant point DENIED
3. Used in Bad faith – No. The Respondent is using the domain name in good faith – complainant point DENIIED
http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case_id=31778
I’m glad I took the time to fight this.
If the Complainant still wants to use colins.com, I would encourage them to contact me directly to see if there is something mutually agreeable we can do so they don’t feel we are causing each other any problem or hardship. We had tried to work with them before without involving legal steps. Maybe now we can continue to work in good faith to come to some agreement.
Jake Messinger
Adjunct Professor,
University of Houston (One of the first 100 sites on the Arpanet/Internet)
colins.com