The domain name LGI.com has been hit with a UDRP.
The domain is owned and forwards to the website of Libertyglobal.com which according to its site is the World’s largest international TV and broadband company.
The Complainant who filed the UDRP is unknown as this point
Here are the key facts listed on their website:
Key Facts:
- World’s largest international TV and broadband company
- Leading operator in Europe; Liberty Global Group
- Established player in Latin America and the Caribbean; LiLAC Group
- Revenue: $19.3 billion1
- Employees: 45,0002
- 56 million homes passed
- 29 million customers
- 59 million RGUs (video, internet, and voice subscribers)
- 11 million mobile subscribers and 7 million WiFi access points
as of June 30, 2016
Revenue: $19.3 billion1 (in millions)
Probably complainant is LGI homes
What makes you think that Liberty Global owns the domain?
The domain name WAS registered to Liberty Global, but it expired late last year and appears to have been picked up by a “Jim Richardson” whose address is apparently City Hall in Grand Junction Colorado, and whose telephone number is reportedly used by phone scammers.
My bet would be that Liberty Global is the complainant.
Well the domain still forwards to Liberty; highly unusually if the domain was re-registered
Not really. I see this fairly often with stolen names. Pointing a name at the old site, if the name was primarily used for forwarding in the first place, leaves the impression that nothing has gone wrong. It’s not as if people regularly check their domain name registrations to figure out if the ownership has changed. That way, the domain name can be moved through several registrar hops before anyone notices. It makes the situation much harder to unwind.
http://www.adrforum.com/domaindecisions/1623023.htm
Respondent has illegally hijacked the domain name and listed itself as the registrant, rather than Complainant. Respondent continues to transfer the domain name to different registrars in an effort to conceal Respondent’s true identity and to prevent easy recovery of the domain name. In an effort to conceal the hijacking, the disputed domain name has resolved to Complainant’s own website at all times.
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The circumstances here look pretty sketchy at a quick glance. The street address and telephone number are bogus, Juno.com was, back in the day, a free email service and dialup provider which merged with NetZero years ago, and still offers free email accounts. If it wasn’t for the expiration, this has many of the earmarks of a hi-jacked name.