An interesting UDRP was filed by the dating app Tinder against the domain name TinderBuster.com which is being forwarded to SwipeBuster.com
SwiperBuster.com is not a parked page but a service which allows people to see whether someone is active on the app. People might want to search for their significant, boss, friend, family or even favorite or hated politician for a $5 fee.
All you need is the first name, age, and location of who you want to check on. Swipe Buster subsequently retrieves the data from Tinder’s application programming interface.
SwiperBuster.com was just registered less than 2 weeks ago on April 2nd to a person in Mexico using the domain name registrar Internet.BS
TinderBuster.com was registered in May 2015 by the same person in Mexico, at the New Zealand Registrar Instra under privacy in early April.
In a 12 days since SwiperBuster.com was launched it has been covered by Vanity Fair, Glamour.com; The New York Daily News; CNBC; and Mashable just to name a few.
Now here is the kicker.
The contacts on the domain name SwiperBuster.com all go to email addresses at TinderBuster.com; so the domain name TinderBuster.com technically would allow someone to gain control of SwipeBuster.com; so a win of the UDRP on TinderBuster.com would give Tinder the ability to change the email and basically take control of TinderBuster.com.
Under UDRP rules all the contact information as well as the registrar is frozen once the UDRP is accepted until and unless the owner of the domain wins the UDRP.
Now I don’t think that Tinder would have any chance of winning a UDRP on the domain name SwipeBuster.com, despite its use but now that the TinderBuster.com is a different matter potentially.
We will keep our eye on it.
They have been successful. Decision to transfer handed down this week.