EZQ.com Gets Hit With UDRP; Is This Another Domain Owner Trying To Get A Stolen Domain Back?

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A UDRP has just been filed on the three letter domain name EZQ.com

EZQ.com is owned by someone in China.

The whois only pulls up a name of the registrant:

“baorui”

The domain is currently being forwarded to another domain nnol.com

Using domain tools I see that the current domain registrant is just listed with a vague address in China and that the domain moved over to the current owner in March.

The previous owner was  EZQuest, Inc of  Anaheim, California (Hence the EZQ) who seemed to have  a line of Cinema Equipment (screenshot below) on the site.

So it appears this UDRP was filed to recover a stolen domain name.

Generally the UDRP is not set up for the recovery of a stolen domain name, and some panels have so held, yet after ICANN committee studies,  numerous cases of domain theft including some going to jail,  there does not seem to be any good, quick remedy for a domain owner to recover a stolen domain like there is for a Trademarked domain.

While Trademark Owners continue propose quicker, faster and cheaper ways of taking domain names away from lawful domain holders and get the continued support of ICANN, its seems like no one is sticking up for or worried about the most obvious clearest victim of domain abuse, the domain holder that has had it’s domain stolen.

Once the complainant of the UDRP is fully revealed I think we will see this is yet another case of domain theft with a desperate owner trying to get their property back.

Its already been almost 3 months and for those whose business depends on their website, its way too long.

The domain name owner was represented by Steven Rinehart of Salt Lake City, which not only handled the UDRP but the plus subsequent federal ACPA litigation in which I got the ex parte injunction the day the case was filed.

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.

Comments

  1. BullS says

    EZQ.com is owned by someone in China.—it is always that case…maybe it is owned by the Communist China

  3. ICANN Policies Facilitate Domain Stealing says

    ICANN Policies Facilitate Domain Stealing

    ICANN does not support Peer-2-Peer DNS which allows a Domain “Owner” to have Physical Ownership

    ICANN Registries can take your domains and give them to others
    ICANN Registrars can assist in what amounts to domain theft

    ICANN Registrar Resellers can cause your domains to be hi-jacked and the Registrar can give them away via auction and you end up with nothing.
    The Reseller can vanish. The Registrar profits from the chaos as does the Registry and ICANN.

    Why is the general public saddled with such a ridiculous system ?

  5. Paul Keating says

    Mike,

    Tread with care. Those same desires for a quick and easy remedy lead to the exact same type of problems we often criticize when raised by the IP side. Due process is due process and is there to protect the defendant in the clear MINORITY of cases. Due process is not a democratic concept for the protection of the majority.

    PRK

  7. What can one do to prevent domain theft? says

    “What can one do to prevent domain theft?”

    There are many obvious solutions, such as physical proof of ownership.

    ICANN has done very little for the Registrant. Some people are mislead that DNSSEC is to secure their “ownership” of domains. That is not the case.

    DNSSEC was developed for techno-political reasons to try to keep ICANN (ISOC) in control. DNSSEC has failed.

    The U.S. Government is walking away from ICANN to build FirstNET. It will be hard to steal domains in that system. By law, the U.S. Attorney General and the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are on the Board of Directors.

    Compare that to the clowns that ICANN has on their Board.

  8. chaslowe says

    “The U.S. Government is walking away from ICANN to build FirstNET. It will be hard to steal domains in that system. By law, the U.S. Attorney General and the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are on the Board of Directors.

    Compare that to the clowns that ICANN has on their Board.”

    Amen and thank you for the information!!! Someone has to be accountable. Someone has to compensate the rightful owners of stolen names. Screw ICANN. They seem more interested in traveling the world on our dime. Who in THE hell do they think they are?

  10. John Berryhill says

    “Due process is not a democratic concept for the protection of the majority.”

    …although the original idea was to protect the privileges of landed barons against arbitrary royal dispossession or imprisonment. If you take a trip to Stonehenge, leave some time in the afternoon to see one of the surviving copies of the Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathedral.