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If You Screw With Golden Nugget You Probably Won’t Get A UDRP But A Federal Lawsuit

May 23, 2011 by Michael Berkens

Vegasinc.com is reporting that GNLV Corp the owner of the Golden Nugget Casinos,  filed two suits in the last month over two typo domain names.

The most recent suit was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in Las Vegas against Kanter Associates SA for cybersquatting and trademark infringement.

The domain name in question is thegoldennuggett.com which has an extra ‘T’ at the end of the domain.

The domain holder is a Panama company.

According to the site the domain “links to travel and reservation services involving the Golden Nuggets, other gaming properties and airlines” and the  “Defendant has registered, trafficked in and/or used a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to and/or dilutive of plaintiff’s trademarks.

According to the same article , On April 27 GNLV Corp filed a lawsuit in the same court against the operator of the golddennugget.com (the domain has an extra “d” in it), registered to someone in Germany.

I know the general rule of thumb in some of the domain world is that if you register trademarks you can always just give back the domain.

However I think this case shows that if you think a trademark holder will not file suit over a single domain name or against person or company outside of the US, think again.

Filed Under: Legal

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. my global website of links and amazing domains MillionsOf.Info BillionsOf.Info TrillionsOf.Info says

    May 23, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    the Fighters.com post seems vanished

  2. MHB says

    May 23, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    The fighters.com post was removed by the request of the broker of the transaction which furnished the info.

  3. Alan says

    May 23, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    Is it worth the time and expense to go after someone in Panama and Germany?


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